X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:34:20 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.5.19-4 exec family of functions find wrong file to execute In-Reply-To: <006501c62656$1f0f09c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <006501c62656$1f0f09c0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 30 January 2006 19:23, Martin wrote: > > > Any response? > > TIA > > --- Martin 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. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/