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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/