Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/10/22/16:02:34
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:40:10PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> From: Linda W.
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:49 AM
>
>> >>Perhaps it is unavoidable, but I see things like find doing 2
>> >>'opens' /file when it is searching for files...can't it just do a
>> >>'stat' of some nature? does it need to do an open, let alone 2?
>
> I believe that the major culprit is looking for executable files. If I have
>understood things correctly.
>
>$ mount -h | grep exe
> -x, --executable treat all files under mount point as executables
> -E, --no-executable treat all files under mount point as
> non-executables
> -X, --cygwin-executable treat all files under mount point as
> cygwin executables
>
>I've not tried this, but anyway: I wonder what happens if one uses the
>sequence;
>
> umount /blaha
> mount -E / -X / -x "MS-PATH" /blaha
> find /blaha ...
> umount /blaha
> mount -bs "MS-PATH" /blaha
The syntax would be:
mount -f -E x:/foo /foo
foo can be a directory or a file, as always. This will force cygwin to
believe that the file is not executable.
Although, hmm. I just tried this and bash still executed a file that should
be non-executable. I'll have to see why.
cgf
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