On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:15 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/9/2016 10:13 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin >>> assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. >>> If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file should be passed to >>> ShellExecute instead it might be beneficial but since I can easily just >>> do "cmd /c foo.txt" then probably not so much. >> >> That is the behavior I would expect in any *nix environment, and >> therefore consider the correct behavior within cygwin. >> > > But any text file, regardless of the mode, regardless of #! first line > will be executed at least by bash; I have tested the other shells. This > isn't expected behavior as I see it.
... that should not work, but I've confirmed it does in some shells... user@localhost /tmp $ echo echo meow >foo.txt user@localhost /tmp $ ls -l foo.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 user Domain Users 10 Aug 9 12:37 foo.txt user@localhost /tmp $ ./foo.txt meow user@localhost /tmp $ chmod a-x foo.txt user@localhost /tmp $ ./foo.txt meow user@localhost /tmp $ ksh user@localhost:/tmp $ ./foo.txt ksh: ./foo.txt: can't execute: Permission denied 126|user@localhost:/tmp $ ^D user@localhost /tmp $ dash \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ ./foo.txt meow \[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$ user@localhost /tmp $ uname -a ; bash --version CYGWIN_NT-10.0 localhost 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin GNU bash, version 4.3.42(4)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. user@localhost /tmp $ -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
