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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Problems with CPAN
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:58:10 +0200
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Hi Sven,


> From: Sven Köhler [mailto:skoehler AT upb DOT de]
> 
> in fact is was easier:
> - the perl script checked the permission - what went wrong 
> since NT ACLs 
> are much more complicated than unix RWX-stuff
> - bash does not use any test - it just opens/runs the file to 
> check if 
> it has access.

Well, no! Bashs tests first and tries then anyway. Difference: If the test
fails it tries to find an alternative. Ash, tcsh and zsh simply try without
looking for alternatives.

Try to run "find" without proper permissions for "/bin".

Regards,
Jörg

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