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Date:	Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:10:35 -0500
From:	Eric Tiffany <etiffany AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>
Subject:	bash 'test -x' gives incorrect results with group permissions?
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I encountered a perplexing situation with file permissions.  I am running
cygwin 1.3.20 and bash 2.05b.0(8).

I have an executable with the following permissions:

$ ls -ln  /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java

-rwxrwx---+   1 544      18          24672 Sep 30 03:08
/c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java

And here is my user info:

$ id

uid=1006(Eric Tiffany) gid=513(None)
groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)

If I run getfacl, I see the following:

$ getfacl.exe -a /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
getfacl.exe -a /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
# file: /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
# owner: Administrators
# group: SYSTEM
user::rwx
group::rwx
group:Users:r-x
mask:rwx
other:---

I can execute the file from the command line.

However, if I say 'test -x /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java' in a script, it
returns false. This seems wrong just based on the fact that I actually can
exec the file.  However, it also seems to contradict the permissions set for
the file, if I am interpreting the results of getfacl correctly.

Is this a bug?  




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