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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:54:06 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin performance
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>Although, hmm.  I just tried this and bash still executed a file that
>>should be non-executable.  I'll have to see why.
>
>bash walks down the PATH looking for anything that matches the name.
>It remembers the first match but keeps walking until it finds an
>executable.  If no executable is found, it returns the first match, if
>any.  If it's a directory, too bad (a non-executable file can be masked
>by a directory).

Um, yeah but it shouldn't be able to execute a non-executable file.  It's
a (minor) cygwin problem.

cgf

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