Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk: ht set sender to ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk using -f X-Authentication-Warning: erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk: ht set sender to ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk using -f To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Spurious executable bits keep turning up From: ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:34:23 +0100 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 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? 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 AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT 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/