Executable flag

[David Rasmussen]

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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