From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (Mikey) Subject: Re: What does it mean? 29 Jun 1998 13:51:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3597f5da.36917388.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@smtp.goodnet.com> References: <01BDA356 DOT 8F7EAAC0 AT drs> Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sergey Okhapkin , cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com Nobody commented about it to the gnu-win32 list, when I asked so I figured NT was Ok. The reason I made it OS specific was that it involves IO, and I didn't want to slow NT down needlessly. ;^) On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:07:59 +0400, you wrote: >Mikey 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. ===================================================== Linux a platform built by, and for users, standing on the firm legs of reliability, and speed. Microsoft Windows, a platform without a leg to stand on. (jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com) delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply Mikey