From: fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp (Kazuhiro Fujieda)
Subject: Re: handling file attributes
25 Oct 1998 05:31:31 -0800
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>>> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:33:12 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> said:

> If we
> eliminate setting it in symlink_check_one it it sure seems to me that
> the !real_path.exec_p test in fhandler_disk_file::open will always
> be true unless the file has an executable extension.

If NTEA is activated and an unix attribute stored in it has the
executable flag, real_path.exec_p is certainly set in
symlink_check_one. Then checking executable extentions by
check_executable_p() is skipped in fhandler_disk_file::open.
But I don't think it is preferable to read NTEA only for
skipping such a light function.

If you don't think so, I can't say more.
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  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology