1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/compress_files b/compress_files
index d95000e..90d092b 100755
--- a/compress_files
+++ b/compress_files
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use warnings;
 use Cwd;
 use File::Find;
 use File::Basename;
+use Fcntl ':mode';
 
 my $ext = $ARGV[0] ||= '.gz';
 die "Unknown extension $ext" unless $ext =~ /^\.(?:gz|bz2|lzma)$/;
@@ -123,8 +124,11 @@ foreach (@files) {
 }
 
 if (@f) {
-    # Make executables not be anymore.
-    xargs(\@f, "chmod", "a-x");
+    # drop executable bits
+    foreach my $file (@f) {
+        my $mode = (stat($file))[2];
+        chmod $mode & ~S_IXUSR & ~S_IXGRP & ~S_IXOTH, $file;
+    }
 
     my @command = $ext eq '.gz'   ? qw/gzip -9f/
                 : $ext eq '.bz2'  ? qw/bzip2 -9f/