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Re: Executable flag


Eric Blake wrote:
Is there anyway to have cygwin _not_ set the executable flag on every file it writes??

On NTFS, where POSIX semantics can be emulated, cygwin obeys POSIX default rules (creating or opening a file does not set the x bits unless specially requested). On FAT, where the file system has no good support, cygwin is helpless. So I fail to reproduce the problem you are reporting. You may also want to consider using umask.


Okay, a reproducable example:


Open cygwin. Write 'notepad test.txt'. Notepad opens, write something and then save the file. Now do an ll. The file test.txt has been created and has the executable flag set. I want it to not be set in such cases.

/David

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