[h-e-w] FW: rwxrwxrwx file access permissions when saving with emacs

[David Starks-Browning]

On Thursday 25 Oct 01, Pirot, Thierry writes:
> 
>       Hello, 
> 
> When I save (C-x C-s) a file within NTEmacs
> its access permissions are set to -rwxrwxrwx.  
> Is it possible to keep the original ones ? 
> 
> I have  GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-nt5.0.2195) on w2k sp1 and CYGWIN=ntsec.

Emacs has no way to know about, or control, Cygwin's file permissions.
Emacs is not a Cygwin application.

If you need that, you should probably use a Cygwin-compiled version of Xemacs.

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)

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