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Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:31:31 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
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Volker Quetschke wrote:

> You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only
> using the owner/group/other scheme?

I think that it recognises files ending in ".exe" and special-cases
them.

> $ 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
>                   ^
> with ------------|
> 
> So it is executable. But ugo rights do not show this

You're right.  But as far as I know most unix utilities don't know about
ACLs and only recognise standard 777 type permissions.

Brian

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