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Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up
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From: ht AT cogsci DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:10:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20030711121647.GU12368@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> 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
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