X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:11:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [bulk] - Re: Bash completion and symlinks problem Message-ID: <20100202101105.GK28659@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DA8EE60B@server03> <20100201151825.GJ28659@calimero.vinschen.de> <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DA8EE60E@server03> <1ef5a52f1002020118g192e71fftead422643991da23@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1ef5a52f1002020118g192e71fftead422643991da23@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Feb 2 10:18, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM, DEWI - N. Zacharias <> wrote: > > > (snip) > > ls yields > > > > $ ls -al dosomething.pl > > -rw-r--r-- 1 n-zacharias Kein 94 2010-02-01 16:42 dosomething.pl > > > > Even if I use chmod 777 dosomething.pl  there is no change in -rw-r--r-- > > > > Which seems to be no problem because it executes anyway. > (snip) > > Only the completion did not work or better the completion for execution. > > Files without execute permission will not be offered for completion as > the executable. Not quite. On filesystems which don't maintain permissions or if noacl is set for the underlying mount, stat() opens the file and the first two bytes are read. If the file starts with a magic cookie, one of them "#!", the file gets the executable bits set. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple