On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a > "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable > permission bits would actually correspond to the executability > of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not > executable - notably because it's empty.
With ntsec on, stat() and friends report the permission bits set in the ACL. I wouldn't want to see anything else. The code using the mount info is only used when ntsec is off. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
