Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:05:07 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Symlinks, executability, system attribute, etc (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]) Message-ID: <20010222220507.C908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010221232921.X908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <000a01c09c73$7a43ce10$d938a8c0@Hadfield> <20010221212656.F7576@redhat.com> <00e601c09d10$379e4250$d938a8c0@Hadfield> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00e601c09d10$379e4250$d938a8c0@Hadfield>; from m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:44:13AM +1300 On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:44:13AM +1300, Mark Hadfield wrote: > Another thought about symlinks, executability etc. IF a change like > Corinna's proposal is adopted and IF some time in the future support for > current-style symlinks is dropped (or can be turned off optionally) then > Cygwin will know that all symlinks have the extension .lnk and it will no > longer need to use the system attribute for that purpose. Could the Windows > system attribute then be used to indicate executability,i.e. the rule would > be that a file is executable if the extension is .exe etc OR the system > attribute is set. Voila, no need to look inside files for #! There's already no need to look into the file when `ntsec' is used on NTFS drives. In that case you simply set the x bit. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple