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: <42A3A773.3C6AFA4A@dessent.net> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:31:31 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable References: <42A32D8C.9080408@scytek.de> <42A35971.8C69A2C5@dessent.net> <42A39676.9030208@scytek.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Volker Quetschke wrote: > You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only > using the owner/group/other scheme? I think that it recognises files ending in ".exe" and special-cases them. > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe > # file: /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe > # owner: Administratoren > # group: none > user::rwx > group::--- > group:SYSTEM:rwx > group:Benutzer:r-x > ^ > with ------------| > > So it is executable. But ugo rights do not show this You're right. But as far as I know most unix utilities don't know about ACLs and only recognise standard 777 type permissions. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/