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From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes
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On Aug 21 17:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 21 15:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > [Cygwin latest snapshot]
> > 
> > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that 
> > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes
> > [...]
> > Is that expected behaviour?
> 
> Right now, yes.  I have disabled code which sets the x bit by reading
> the first bytes of a file to figure out if it starts with magic chars
> like '#!'.  The reason I disabled this code in the first place is the
> fact that it's not thread safe.

I just applied a patch which re-enables this code in a thread safe manner.


Corinna

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