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Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:16:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: Spurious executable bits keep turning up
- References: <f5bwuepjo00.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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