Re: [open-cobol-list] GNU COBOL sets execute bit on file creation

[Harald Arnesen]

Harald Arnesen [2015-02-14 10:24]:
> William M Klein [2015-02-13 23:49]:
> 
>>      I don't understand what this has to do with Report Writer? You also
>> don't make it clear (to me) what you think the problem is.
>> 
>> The only thing I can imagine is that there is a question about writing the
>> last record in the file "buffer" when there isn't a final write and close.
>> 
>> Is that your question/problem -or is there something else?
> 
> It has nothing to do with the report writer as such, it's just that
> version 2.0 and version 2.1 (the report writer version) differs from
> version 1.1 when creating a file.
> 
> v1.1 does not set the execute bit on a newly created file, while v2.0
> and v2.1 do. I think the former behaviour is right.

I see that it is fixed in the latest report writer version. The
"gnucobol-2.0" branch still has the bug.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.