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 X-Authentication-Warning: erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk: ht set sender to ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk using -f To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up References: <20030711121647.GU12368@cygbert.vinschen.de> From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:10:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030711121647.GU12368@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:16:47 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Corinna Vinschen writes: > 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. Thanks for the succinct and helpful answer. Does the use of the word 'default' mean there's anything I can do at the permissions/security level within XP to change this? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -- 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/