> On Thursday 20 March 2003 04:40, Daniel Stone wrote: > >> > Most files get the executable flag set even though they are just data >> > files like pictures or music. >> >> Yeah, Windows has no concept of the executable bit. Try mounting a vfat >> filesystem some day - everything's executable. It's a limitation, not a >> bug, and there's nothing we can do about it. > > But that must mean the io-slave assumes all files are executable? Can't it > instead assume that they are not.
Not ioslave, but the kernel. Your filesystem is mounted in such way. Use umask mount option to change that.
