Johannes Schindelin, Thu, Jun 28, 2007 16:07:17 +0200: > > No. It was meant as Alex said it. Windows (MinGW) doesn't understand > > "chmod a+x blub". > > Yes, I suspected that. But I don't see a need for it on Windows (MinGW) to > begin with. > But it is necessary on Windows (Cygwin): chmod(2) with mode set to 0644 will happily take execute permission from an .com, .bat, .cmd, .pl, .exe or .dll file. Which means something different on Windows, but results in unexpectedly (for a Windows user) looking errors. The users there do not expect seeing an .exe-file but be not able to run it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
