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> Also, conhost has a _heck lot_ of code written to make this work. The path to the `lnk` that spawned it is passed in `STARTUPINFO`, and conhost goes and...

My description focused on the executable permission, because it specifically caused a problem for me. But the real issue is the permissions changed. No permissions should change because of an...

Truncating or overwriting the original file (and thereby preserving permissions) sounds like a good solution. Logically, syncthing.exe.old is the "new" file, and it would be OK to assign the default...

It looks like Microsoft provides command line tools, such as icacls, for manipulating ACLs. Couldn't you just call these external programs to copy the ACL?

The point of this bug report is not to make things work with my particular configuration—I already know how to work around the bug. The issue is that if any...

> My opinion is that replacing the binary and trusting the default/inherited permissions to work is fine, and we do this on all platforms. I don't see how that could...

I think the new title creates an undo focus on a particular symptom, while ignoring the actual bug which is the cause of that symptom. Based on the above comments,...