From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: handling file attributes
22 Oct 1998 05:30:44 -0700
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To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 11:52:41AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:35:54 +0900
>>>> Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp> said:
>
>> fhandler_disk_file::open doesn't check the magic number '#!' on NT.
>> fhandler.cc:1075
>>   if (!real_path.exec_p && os_being_run != winNT)
>> 
>> When NTEA is enabled, this causes no problem by doing chmod +x.
>> But when NTEA is disabled by default, I can't execute shell
>> scripts having the same name as .exe files in another path.
>> I think it should always check the magic number or not check
>> only when NTEA is enabled.
>
>This problem isn't taken into account in the latest snapshot.
>Can't you understand this problem by reason of my poor English ?
>The easiest solution is to stop checking WinNT, same as
>spawn_guts() in spawn.cc.
>
>--- fhandler.cc-	Wed Oct 21 14:29:47 1998
>+++ fhandler.cc	Thu Oct 22 11:06:29 1998
>@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@
>   if (!res)
>     goto out;
> 
>-  if (!real_path.exec_p && os_being_run != winNT)
>+  if (!real_path.exec_p)
>     {
>       DWORD done;
>       char magic[3];

I understood your original report but I really hate making this change.
It causes a very noticeable performance loss.  If you'd like to rework
this so that it is only active when NTEA is not activated then I'll add
that change.

-chris