Group execute permission regression (??): causing problem in fossil.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Feb 6 16:35:00 GMT 2015


On Feb  6 17:22, Jan Nijtmans wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Starting with the upgrade to Cygwin (latest: 1.7.34), fossil started to
> behave strangely: Every file committed to a fossil repository suddenly
> had the execute permission bit set! With 1.7.33 this didn't happen.
> The cause of this problem was that apparently starting with Cygwin
> 1.7.34, the group permission bit in some directories is always set, and
> cannot be unset.

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.ssh-pubkey-stops-working

Does that help?


Corinna

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