Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:16:47 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up Message-ID: <20030711121647.GU12368@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:34:23PM +0100, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Sorry if this is an FAQ, I've searched the archives but found nothing. > > I run under XP, CYGWIN=tty ntsec. > > Files produced by a range of mechanisms (at least FileOutputStream in > Java, xemacs, MS Word) show up as executable (-rwxrwxrwx), which is > somewhere between distracting, irritating and a real problem. What am > I doing wrong? Nothing. The executable bit is set by default on files created with native Windows apps. Annoying but true. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/