Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:28:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable Message-ID: <20050704072830.GR21074@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <42A32D8C DOT 9080408 AT scytek DOT de> <42A35971 DOT 8C69A2C5 AT dessent DOT net> <42A39676 DOT 9030208 AT scytek DOT de> <42A3A773 DOT 3C6AFA4A AT dessent DOT net> <42C68B1B DOT 5010404 AT byu DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42C68B1B.5010404@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/