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Subject: FW: file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 20090518        snapshot
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 22:05:26 -0700
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> From: karl
> Subject: RE: file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 20090=
518 snapshot
> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:40:00 -0700
>
>
>> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:17:41 -0400
>> From: lh
>> Subject: Re: file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 2009=
0518 snapshot
>>
>> Karl M wrote:
>
> If I type
>
> ls -al /c/Cygwin/bin
>
> the exe files are all listed with rw------- instead of rwx------ as I wou=
ld expect
> from the documentation.
>
So is this description current, or does it no longer apply?

While normally the execute permission bits are used to evaluate executabili=
ty, this
is not possible on filesystems which don't support permissions at all (like=
 FAT/FAT32),
or if ACLs are ignored on filesystems supporting them (see the aforemention=
ed acl mount
option). In these cases, the following heuristic is used to evaluate if a f=
ile is
executable: Files ending in certain extensions (.exe, .com, .bat, .btm, .cm=
d) are
assumed to be executable.

Thanks,

...Karl
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