All Windows-created files seem to have mode -rwxrwxrwx

[Ivan Dobrianov]

Sorry is this has been asked 1000 times, but even though there are many references to permissions setting in the FAQ and User guide, nohting explains the following.

THE FACTS: I have "Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1" and Cygwin cygwin_1.3.14-1 gotten and installed yesterday, with settings "CYGWIN = `ntea'" and the disks are NTFS, e.g.:
e: hd NTFS 70001Mb 13% CP CS UN PA FC DATA

THE PROBLEM: All is well except that all Windows-created files seem to have permissions -rwxrwxrwx. Including text files created by say Notepad. All are "executable".

I have no problem with reading or chaning permissions from inside Cygwin. Also files created from Cygwin have reasonable permissions: -rw-rw-rw-. It is just file created from Windows applications that are always executable.

Any clues? Thanks!

PS: I do not want to bother with 'ntsec' - security is not an issue at the moment.
PS2: I have used previous versions of cygwin on a number of NTFS-disked machins and never seen this.


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