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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Wu Yongwei" <adah AT netstd DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: File mode judgement
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:12:19 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wu Yongwei" <adah AT netstd DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: File mode judgement


> In the past, Cygwin seemed to judge whether a file is executable on a
> combination of suffix and content. However, today when I reinstalled
Cygwin,
> I suddenly found that it no more did it. Now on a NTFS volume it
depends
> only on file attributes.
>
> 1) Is it a design change?

Yes. It is much faster to look at file permissions first, and content
second. Thats what unix does. The change is activated by CYGWIN=ntsec.

> 2) Is it possible to switch back to the old behaviour?

AFAIK, no. It shouldn't be needed anyway, just use chmod to set the +x
bit on any executables you have.
Rob


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