the bat file is located outside of cygwin root. i've tried adding noacl to the fstab and this creates other problems...
rather frustrating... On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, schilpfamily! > >> i updated my cygwin area recently and now windows bat files will not >> execute with "Permission denied" error message. in addition the bat >> file has permission 644. >> previous to updating cygwin, all bat files had the execute bit set and >> were always executable. on the documentation for cygwin, it explicitly >> says that bat, com and exe files are always executable in cygwin. has >> this changed?? and if so, why?? this makes it really painful.... > > If you bar file is located under cygwin root, you must explicitly give it > executable permissions. > If it is located outside Cygwin root, you may go away with deferring ACL > control to Windows. > I.e. by amending /etc/fstab to something like > > none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl 0 0 > > Ref: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive > > > -- > With best regards, > Andrey Repin > Friday, July 17, 2015 22:11:36 > > Sorry for my terrible english... > -- 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
