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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
index d8fc42b42..66585f00f 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
@@ -569,13 +569,9 @@ fhandler_disk_file::fchown (__uid32_t uid, __gid32_t gid)
new ACL with these useless permissions results in a potentially
broken symlink. So what we do here is to set the underlying
permissions of symlinks to a sensible value which allows the
- world to read the symlink and only the new owner to change it.
- As for the execute permissions... they *seem* to be not
- necessary, but for the sake of comleteness and to avoid
- struggling with yet another Windows weirdness, the execute bits
- are added as well. */
+ world to read the symlink and only the new owner to change it. */
if (pc.issymlink ())
- attrib = S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | S_IROTH | S_IXOTH;
+ attrib = S_IFLNK | STD_RBITS | STD_WBITS;
res = set_file_attribute (pc.has_acls (), get_io_handle (), pc,
uid, gid, attrib);
}