=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wu Yongwei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 9:10 PM Subject: File mode judgement
> In the past, Cygwin seemed to judge whether a file is executable on a > combination of suffix and content. However, today when I reinstalled Cygwin, > I suddenly found that it no more did it. Now on a NTFS volume it depends > only on file attributes. > > 1) Is it a design change? Yes. It is much faster to look at file permissions first, and content second. Thats what unix does. The change is activated by CYGWIN=ntsec. > 2) Is it possible to switch back to the old behaviour? AFAIK, no. It shouldn't be needed anyway, just use chmod to set the +x bit on any executables you have. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
