From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using external tools KILLS permissions of ASCII files Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 16:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010904012039.B4947@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <019e01c134cb$11d287e0$76c606d5@andreas> <20010904010029.A4947@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00086.html On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:00:29AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:52:11AM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote: > > I wrote: > > > The only way out seems to be sticking to Cygwin tools _only_ for editing, > > > even 'vi' if you insist. > > > But that's would be a bad compromise... > > > > A little add-on to this: I just checked a -rwxr-x-r-x file, edited it > > with > > vi, and modified it a bit. After saving the file the original permissions > > were gone and the file was at -rw-r--r--. > > How can I change this (or restore the original permissions) at least a > > _little_ on W9x? Really no way to just _keep_ the original permissions of a > > file? > > *Sigh* > > The x-bit on 9x/ME is set _only_ by examining the beginning of the > file. If it's containing e.g. #!/bin/perl or so, it's executable. ...except for the test for file suffixes (.exe, etc.), of course. But that shouldn't match your problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/