Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 3 16:00:00 GMT 2001
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:52:11AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
> I wrote:
> > The only way out seems to be sticking to Cygwin tools _only_ for editing,
> > even 'vi' if you insist.
> > But that's would be a bad compromise...
>
> A little add-on to this: I just checked a -rwxr-x-r-x file, edited it
> with
> vi, and modified it a bit. After saving the file the original permissions
> were gone and the file was at -rw-r--r--.
> How can I change this (or restore the original permissions) at least a
> _little_ on W9x? Really no way to just _keep_ the original permissions of a
> file?
> *Sigh*
The x-bit on 9x/ME is set _only_ by examining the beginning of the
file. If it's containing e.g. #!/bin/perl or so, it's executable.
Your native Windows tool seems to remove this #! stuff, unfortunately.
Corinna
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