Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/31/11:23:20
In response to your comments:
I ran the testcase from ~/testcases directory. I believe my cygwin.out
file indicates /home is mounted from D:\home (HOME=/home/test). Also,
D: is NTFS. Also, there is nothing special about mount point (no -x
flag was used). This is all shown in cygwin.out.
Martin
--- Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > On 30 January 2006 19:23, Martin wrote:
> >
> > > Any response?
> > > TIA
> > > --- Martin <linkscrazy AT yahoo.!> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I am attempting to invoke a command with execvp/execlp. If a
> file
> > >> appears in my PATH before the executable desired and has the
> same name
> > >> as the executable, the first occurrence of the file name is used
> as
> > >> the executable to invoke. Even though the first file is NOT
> marked as
> > >> executable.
> >
> > >> Is this normal behavior for execlp/execvp?
> > >> Shouldn't the execution permission be set in order to execute
> it?
> >
> > Depends on your mountpoints. If the file is found under a
> mountpoint
> > with the cygexec flag set, it will be assumed to be executable
> > regardless of the x bit in the file's perms.
>
> Also, on FAT filesystems, there are no permission bits[*]... Your
> file
> may be tripping the executable file detection heuristics, though.
> Igor
> [*] Cygwin can simulate them for you on pure FAT with "ntea", but
> with
> FAT32 you're SOL.
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