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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:16:47 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up
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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

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