Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:15:20 -0400
From:	Tom Brown & Deb Burkey <tmbdab95 AT comcast DOT net>
Subject:	newbie question: everything is executable
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-to:	tmbdab95 AT comcast DOT net
Message-id:	<NEBBKKHDKLFPPMDMDBMKAEDNCBAA.tmbdab95@comcast.net>
MIME-version:	1.0
X-MIMEOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Importance:	Normal
X-Priority:	3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-priority:	Normal

Hello,
I've looked around the FAQ, guides, and web, but don't see the answer yet.
I just installed Cygwin on a Win98 box, but I've used UNIX for years.  The
guides say that chmod only lets you modify the +w attribute, and that the
mount table can determine the attributes for all files in the mounted tree.
However, every file I create in my $HOME (or below) is executable upon
creation.  E.g., if I do the following:
 $> cat > foo
 $> echo $PATH
 $> ctrl-D
and then type "foo", I get my path.  I am not doing a "source" on "foo",
just typing "foo". On any system I've used previously, text files are not
automatically executable - you can source them to exec their contents, but
to make them executable you had to give them the +x attribute.  How can I
remove the x attribute from file in my directory?  And prevent them from
creating with that attribute in the first place?

Thanks,
Tom



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -