From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: What does it mean?
9 Jul 1998 19:16:56 -0700
Message-ID: <199807100144.VAA03182.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com>
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com, jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com, noer AT cygnus DOT com,
        sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru

I think the code deserves some more study to find out what is really
going wrong.

cgf

>From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
>Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 01:18:03 +0000
>
>On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 12:07:59PM +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>>
>> > The x bit IS apparently set on NT by the symlink checking code,
>> > but like I said on 95 it isn't set. you get a permission denied
>> > whenever you try to run a shell script from $PATH without this
>> > code frag.
>> 
>> I have the same problem on NT too, so the code must not depend of os
>> being run.
>
>So I gather the conclusion is we need to do away with the not NT check
>and always use this code?  I'm trying to get through all my mail after
>vacationing and would like to resolve this so I can delete this
>thread.  :-)