cygwin's files are read-only under normal windows shell

Thorsten Kampe thorsten@thorstenkampe.de
Wed Dec 21 12:10:00 GMT 2005


* Tyler Spivey (2005-12-21 07:25 +0100)
> Hello. I've noticed an odd problem with cygwin. When I create a file, e.g.
> with wget or something similar, the read-only button in windows explorer is
> set
> to partialy checked.
> Is there any way I can prevent this behaviour and allow executable files,
> for instance, to run without disabling that in windows explorer which
> doesn't
> seem to work,


man umask


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