Volker Quetschke wrote: > I stumbled over the following problem, perl's -x doesn't recognize > some files as executable, even though they are and test -x does.
It works for me if the file is group or world executable. $chmod a-x java.exe; ls -l java.exe -rw-------+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 45161 Mar 8 19:49 java.exe $ perl -e '-x "java.exe" and print "OK\n";' $ chmod +x java.exe; ls -l java.exe -rwx------+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 45161 Mar 8 19:49 java.exe $ perl -e '-x "java.exe" and print "OK\n";' $ chmod g+x java.exe; ls -l java.exe -rwx--x---+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 45161 Mar 8 19:49 java.exe $ perl -e '-x "java.exe" and print "OK\n";' OK $ chmod a+x java.exe; ls -l java.exe -rwx--x--x+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 45161 Mar 8 19:49 java.exe $ perl -e '-x "java.exe" and print "OK\n";' OK Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
