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Re: wget 1.17.x creates odd permissions on downloaded files
- From: Zube <Zube at stat dot colostate dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:48:06 -0600
- Subject: Re: wget 1.17.x creates odd permissions on downloaded files
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- References: <20160622184015 dot GA73575 at quantum dot stat dot colostate dot edu> <1615080910 dot 20160623133417 at yandex dot ru>
- Reply-to: Zube at stat dot colostate dot edu
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On Thu Jun 23 01:34:17 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Zube!
Thanks very much for taking the time to reply.
> This is how Cygwin works around certain incompatibilities between
> Windows and POSIX permission models. Do NOT fall into a trap
> and believe that Explorer trying to drag you to. The permissions
> are correct, it's just that Explorer is unable to deal with them,
> because all it knows is so-called "canonical" order.
OK.
> If you want Windows behavior, use noacl flag on non-Cygwin mounts.
Thank you. As you might have seen in my follow-up, it was simply
a change in behavior that I wasn't expecting. Now that I expect
it, I can certainly set the execute bit on whatever executables
I download.
Cheers,
Zube
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