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Subject: Re: Editors set x-bit (sometimes)
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:54:35 -0500
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On 12/13/2016 5:39 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Does anybody have an explanation for the following strange phenomenon?
>
> When I create Ruby files (*.rb) with an, the files end up with the x-bit
> set with some editors, while this does not happen with some other
> editors. This is annoying, because when I use git to put the file in a
> repository, and the repository is later read on Linux, the incorrect
> x-bit is applied there too. The text editors where this happens, do so
> consistently, as long as the file is below my Ruby HOME directory. It
> does not happen, if I store the file outside my $HOME, say in c:\tmp.
>
> Since a few editors do not show this behaviour, one might blame the way
> the editor creates the file. However, these text editors were not
> written with a Cygwin environment in mind, and Windows doesn't have the
> concept of an "executable bit", and it happens only if I create files
> below my Cygwin Home, so I think this happens when Cygwin tries to
> "infer" the x-bit from some other file properties.

Does this help?

    https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.same-with-permissions

Ken

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