Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E6F8112.7060301@ntlworld.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:48:50 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030305 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh References: <1CA079E0A10FD7119DC20002A544C5BE553BDC@eesusciexs3.eesus.jnj.com> <3E6F64BB.2060605@ntlworld.com> <015201c2e8ba$8c21c660$78d96f83@pomello> <3E6F7E38.8030409@ntlworld.com> <02e701c2e8c7$065f4cc0$78d96f83@pomello> In-Reply-To: <02e701c2e8c7$065f4cc0$78d96f83@pomello> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Max Bowsher wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: >> Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Get him to run "ls -l /bin/sh" and also "id" and send the output >>> here. >>> >> >> /bin/sh.exe had no perms set (and neither did anything else in /bin) >> >> I did a ''chmod 000 /bin/sh.exe'' on my system and got the same >> problem. >> >> I had checked with him early on that sh was executable, but by running >> it from the command line, and it worked. Just to test this I tried >> myself: >> >> marder-1:~{32}$ ls -l /bin/sh.exe >> -rwx------+ 1 marko None 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh.exe >> marder-1:~{33}$ chmod 000 /bin/sh.exe >> marder-1:~{34}$ ls -l /bin/sh.exe >> ----------+ 1 marko None 69632 Jul 31 2002 /bin/sh.exe >> marder-1:~{35}$ /bin/sh >> \h:\w{\#}$ exit >> marder-1:~{36}$ >> >> That shouldn't work, surely? Without the execute bit set it should >> throw a "Command not found" or similar. > > This weirdness arises due to the difficulties in mapping ACLs to Unix > permission bits. (Actually, the very latest, just released, not yet on all > the mirrors, version 1.3.21 of cygwin has an improvement relating to this.) > Thanks for the explanation, that's useful to know. In future I'll check the perms rather than just try running from the command line when testing for executableness. Regards, Parish > > Max. > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/