permissions on .exe files
Frank Fesevur
ffes@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jul 21 09:06:00 GMT 2006
Hemal Pandya wrote:
> If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports
> that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it
> does not become executable unless explicitly set.
>
> One implication of this is that when I extract a .zip using cygwin
> unzip then the .exe, .dll, .bat etc do not get the executable
> permission.
>
> Is there a way to tell cygwin to assign u+x for the files created from
> cygwin for which it would have otherwise assumed this permission?
I'm experiencing similar problems when I download an .exe with wget.
Since my question on this issues didn't get a real satisfying answer, I
still download to a FAT32 drive. So I hope this problem can be solved.
Regards,
Frank
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