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Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:28:31 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
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On Jul  2 06:39, Eric Blake wrote:
> There are two 'test's - the bash builtin, and /bin/test from coreutils.
> /bin/test uses access()/eaccess()
> (/usr/src/coreutils-5.3.0/src/test.c:552,
> /usr/src/coreutils-5.3.0/lib/euidaccess.c) to determine if a file is
> executable, which should leave it entirely in cygwin1.dll's hands (and
> rely on cygwin's handling of spelling, ACLs, and ownerships).  bash uses
> its own home-baked method (/usr/src/bash-3.0/test.c:223,609) using stat()
> as its base, so it appears to ignore ACLs.  Please let me know if either
> test or /bin/test gets a wrong answer in the presence of ACLs, in which
> case I can report the bug upstream.

It's advisable to use access() on Cygwin instead of stat() with cream.


Corinna

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