Spurious executable bits keep turning up
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 11 14:28:00 GMT 2003
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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