On Apr 10 19:00, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Please give the new code a try. I uploaded new 2015-04-10 developer > > snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Here is the test I ran: > > $ cd /cygdrive/c > > $ touch ~/{alpha,bravo}.sh ~+/{charlie,delta}.sh > > $ chmod +x ~/bravo.sh ~+/delta.sh > > $ ls -l --color ~/{alpha,bravo}.sh ~+/{charlie,delta}.sh > -rw-rw-r--+ 1 John None 0 Apr 10 16:51 /cygdrive/c/charlie.sh > -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 John None 0 Apr 10 16:51 /cygdrive/c/delta.sh (green) > -rw-r--r-- 1 John None 0 Apr 10 16:51 /home/John/alpha.sh > -rwxrwxr-x 1 John None 0 Apr 10 16:51 /home/John/bravo.sh (green) > > So "charlie.sh" looks strange because it has that extra write permission. > However this is not a big deal for me. My concern was that everything was > showing up executable (green) when running "ls --color". So overall this is an > improvement, thanks. What is '~+'? Is that some weird bash feature? Did you check the ACL? The ACL before and after the change should explain what happened. Check it with getfacl *and* icacls to get an idea what it looks like, and compare the result with the POSIX ACL rules, as outlined on, e.g., http://linux.die.net/man/5/acl. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat