X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Execute permission not set when creating files Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:57 -0500 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <3DC7517E3D40416E8A08A8F93EB0904E@ra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC7517E3D40416E8A08A8F93EB0904E@ra> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 John Cooper wrote: > Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> I don't think I've met a POSIX-like system yet that automatically creates >> things with any +x bits set. > > I'm assuming that the recent Cygwin's failure to set the +x bit is the cause > of the underlying problem, namely that any files I create (e.g., via output > redirection) can no longer be read when I'm logged onto my wife's desktop. I'd expect the read bit to be the culprit, not the execute bit. (Also, I'd be surprised if Cygwin set +x on anything except directories at any point in the last... well, long time :-).) > This certainly wasn't a problem with a previous version of Cygwin, and is > really quite a nuisance. (if I create a file with `notepad' or any other > Windows program, it is, by default, readable when logged in as a different > user.) Notepad, being a pure-Windows program, has a ridiculous habit of making things executable that shouldn't be. You might want to check the ACL's with cacls and/or getfacl, both of the problematic files, their owning directories, and the parents thereof. And compare to something that works (preferably in the same directory). (So, if you have /cygdrive/c/Foo/Bar/something.txt, you'd want to look at something.txt, /cygdrive/c/Foo/Bar, and possibly /cygdrive/c/Foo, etc.) Does adding a+x really fix the problem? If so that seems... surprising. -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- ESNR: signal to noise ratio too low (try a mailer without disclaimers) -- 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/