Spurious executable bits keep turning up

[Jason Lunz]

ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk said:
> 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?

I'm having the same problem. An ssh private key unpacked by nsis
(http://nsis.sf.net) under XP has 0777 permissions, meaning that a
cygwin-compiled ssh.exe refuses to use it. But this works under win2k.
Is there any workaround for this?

Jason


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