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Date:	Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:47:19 +0200
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Krzysztof Duleba wrote:

>> Volker Quetschke wrote:

>>> I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize
>>> some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does.

>> It works for me if the file is group or world executable.

> Works for me anyway, as long as I am probing a Cygwin executable:

After thinking about it, it depends on the owner of the file, it work as
long as I'm the owner.

$ id
uid=11002(gerrit) gid=10512(Domänen-Admins) 
groups=0(root),10512(Domänen-Admins),10513(Domänen-Benutzer),11031(Mailer)

$ chown gerrit /c/Programme/Mozilla/mozilla.exe

$ perl -e 'if ( ! -x "/c/Programme/Mozilla/mozilla.exe" ) {print "not 
executable\n";} else {print "executable\n";}'
executable

$ getfacl /c/Programme/Mozilla/mozilla.exe
# file: /c/Programme/Mozilla/mozilla.exe
# owner: gerrit
# group: Domänen-Benutzer
user::rwx
group::---
group:SYSTEM:rwx
mask:rwx
other:---


Gerrit
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