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newbie question: everything is executable
- From: Tom Brown & Deb Burkey <tmbdab95 at comcast dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:15:20 -0400
- Subject: newbie question: everything is executable
- Reply-to: tmbdab95 at comcast dot net
Hello,
I've looked around the FAQ, guides, and web, but don't see the answer yet.
I just installed Cygwin on a Win98 box, but I've used UNIX for years. The
guides say that chmod only lets you modify the +w attribute, and that the
mount table can determine the attributes for all files in the mounted tree.
However, every file I create in my $HOME (or below) is executable upon
creation. E.g., if I do the following:
$> cat > foo
$> echo $PATH
$> ctrl-D
and then type "foo", I get my path. I am not doing a "source" on "foo",
just typing "foo". On any system I've used previously, text files are not
automatically executable - you can source them to exec their contents, but
to make them executable you had to give them the +x attribute. How can I
remove the x attribute from file in my directory? And prevent them from
creating with that attribute in the first place?
Thanks,
Tom
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