On Jun 19 04:25, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> >>>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work > >> >>>>around the problem? > >> >>> > >> >>>Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users > >> >>>from their own stupidity. If you use wget, you should know what you're > >> >>>doing. > >> >>> > >> >>>How about you just give it a try? > >> >> > >> >> Er, I don't have this problem. I wasn't the one reporting it. > >> > Downloading setup.exe with wget has another problem. The downloaded > >> > file is missing the +x bit, IIRC. > >> > >> It's irrelevant for setup.exe. > > > It's not. Try to start any executable on a NTFS filesystem. Remove > > the executable bits from all entries in the ACL. Try again. > > Sure that will cause issues, but read quote from the start. > If you download setup.exe using wget, it's unlikely you'll be unable to run > it. > You need to do some real tinkering first to prevent that.
I was solely referring to the common misconception that the execute bit has no meaning for Windows excecutables. Some people even think the execute bit is just faked by Cygwin(*). I can't let this go without commenting on it. Corinna (*) which it is, but only on filesystems which don't support permissions at all, like FAT/FAT32. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple