Re: Executable flag

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

> David Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> This is really out of Cygwin's control.  The permissions that other
> programs choose to create files with is completely up to them.  It just
> happens that the Windows default (Full Control to the owner and
> Administrators, Read & Execute to Users) happens to contain the execute
> permission.
>
> However I believe that almost all Windows programs do not specify an ACL
> when creating files, so they end up inheriting the permissions from the
> directory (or from the parent directory or its parent directory, etc.)
>
> If you change this ACL that is the source of this inheritance so that it
> does not contain the 'execute' permission you should be able to get the
> situation you desire.  However, you may break some functionality in
> Windows.  For example, you will not be able to run any programs in such
> a modified directory tree until you explicitly give all the .dll, .exe,
> .ocx, etc files the Execute permission.  (It would be the same as if you
> did "chmod -R 644 /bin" on a unix system.)

I've used the attached script successfully for quite a while...
Enjoy,
	Igor
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