diff --git a/tst/passthrough-fuse/passthrough-fuse.c b/tst/passthrough-fuse/passthrough-fuse.c
index c8ae9409..1696cd72 100644
--- a/tst/passthrough-fuse/passthrough-fuse.c
+++ b/tst/passthrough-fuse/passthrough-fuse.c
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static int ptfs_create(const char *path, fuse_mode_t mode, struct fuse_file_info
     ptfs_impl_fullpath(path);
 
     int fd;
-    return -1 != (fd = open(path, O_CREAT | O_EXCL, mode)) ? (fi_setfd(fi, fd), 0) : -errno;
+    return -1 != (fd = open(path, fi->flags, mode)) ? (fi_setfd(fi, fd), 0) : -errno;
 }
 
 static int ptfs_ftruncate(const char *path, fuse_off_t off, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
diff --git a/tst/passthrough-fuse/winposix.c b/tst/passthrough-fuse/winposix.c
index 29ec5094..f0d55cb5 100644
--- a/tst/passthrough-fuse/winposix.c
+++ b/tst/passthrough-fuse/winposix.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ int fstat(int fd, struct fuse_stat *stbuf)
     LastWriteTime = ((PLARGE_INTEGER)(&FileInfo.ftLastWriteTime))->QuadPart - 116444736000000000;
 
     memset(stbuf, 0, sizeof *stbuf);
-    stbuf->st_mode = 0755 |
+    stbuf->st_mode = 0777 |
         ((FileInfo.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) ? 0040000/* S_IFDIR */ : 0);
     stbuf->st_nlink = 1;
     stbuf->st_size = ((UINT64)FileInfo.nFileSizeHigh << 32) | ((UINT64)FileInfo.nFileSizeLow);