Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Roman Belenov]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> Really?  I already asked someone in this thread about this: does
> Cygwin GCC really produce foo.exe programs that aren't
> world-executable?  That person checked and came back saying that chmod
> wasn't necessary.

I learned more about the situation. Actually, cygwin has a concept of
umask, so that permissions of created files depend on user's
settings. On my system umask was 0, so that produced executables were
world-executable, but this can be easily changed.

> Let me understand this: are you saying that if a user Bob builds
> hello.exe with the Cygwin port of GCC and installs it in a public
> directory, then a user Alice on the same machine cannot run this
> hello.exe?  I'd be surprised if this was the case, as it would confuse
> every Windows user out there.

I user Bob had "umask 700" in his ~/.profile, it would be the case.

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                                                        With regards, Roman.