Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/02/10:20:26
Try mount --help.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Tom Brown & Deb Burkey
> Sent: Monday, 3 June 2002 12:15 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: newbie question: everything is executable
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
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