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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: Executable flag Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:20:19 -0400 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <102620052059.5236.435FEE1400022CF60000147422007348300A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <435FEED2.3040309@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes > > Okay, a reproducable example: > > Open cygwin. Write 'notepad test.txt'. Notepad opens, write something and > then save the file. Now do an ll. The file test.txt has been created and > has the executable flag set. I want it to not be set in such cases. > > /David > The problem is that windows programs create files seen by cygwin as excecutable. I find this quite annoying myself, as an 'ls' outside a cygwin controlled directoy floods my screen with green text. (my 'ls' is an alias for 'ls --color'). It would be nice if the default for windows programs was the other way around. -- 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/