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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:51:24 -0400
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
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I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize
some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does.

(The following example uses nsis.exe but something like java.exe
would show the same problem.)

Examples:

$ test -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" && echo "executable"
executable

$ perl -e 'if ( -e "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" ) {print "exist";}'
exist

*but*

$ perl -e 'if ( ! -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" ) {print "not 
executable";}'
not executable

I'm logged in as user q:

$ id -a
uid=1001(q) gid=513(none) 
groups=0(root),513(none),544(Administratoren),545(Benutzer)

Here are some informations about the file:

$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe
-rwx------+ 1 Administratoren none 254976 Nov 10  2003 
/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe*

q AT lisi ~
$ getfacl /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe
# file: /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe
# owner: Administratoren
# group: none
user::rwx
group::---
group:SYSTEM:rwx
group:Benutzer:r-x
group:Hauptbenutzer:rwx
mask:rwx
other:---

System information:
$ cygcheck -c | grep perl
perl                 5.8.6-4             OK

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 lisi 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) 2005-05-25 19:38 i686 unknown 
unknown Cygwin

(I can provide a cygcheck output if desired)

Volker


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