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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:35:04 +0200
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On 23/09/2015 01:04, Walter L. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just performed a fresh install of the latest (2.2.1) Cygwin on 64-bit Windows 7 and noticed 2 issues with the new version that I'd like to verify whether or not they are bugs:
>
>
> 2) The 'touch' command creates a file with the executable bit set
>
> [user AT hostname ~]$ touch newfile.txt
> [user AT hostname ~]$ ls -l newfile.txt
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 user Domain Users 0 Sep 22 17:21 newfile.txt
>
> I am fully aware that Windows programs (e.g. Eclipse and Windows Explorer) will create files with the executable bit set due to ACL and NTFS permissions. However, if I 'touch' a file inside an earlier version of Cygwin the file would be created without the executable bit set (i.e. 644). To be honest, I can't tell if this is caused by the new version of Cygwin or a Windows Update.
> [user AT hostname ~]$ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW hostname 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) 2015-08-20 11:40 i686 Cygwin
>
> This is my first time posting, so please let me know if I need to provide additional information, or if I should split this into 2 separate topics.
>
> Thanks,
> ~WL
>   		 	   		

It likely depends on the inherited permissions from the directory

$ cd /tmp
  /tmp
  $ touch prova

$ ls -l prova
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Sep 24 07:27 prova

  $ getfacl prova
# file: prova
# owner: marco
# group: Administrators
user::rw-
group::r--
other:r--

$ cd /cygdrive/e/temp

$ touch prova

$ ls -l prova
-rw-rwxr--+ 1 marco Administrators 0 Sep 24 07:27 prova*

$ getfacl prova
# file: prova
# owner: marco
# group: Administrators
user::rw-
group::r--
group:SYSTEM:rwx
mask:rwx
other:r--

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