On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:31:31PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Volker Quetschke wrote: > > > You mean special logic for windows file permissions (ACL?), not only > > using the owner/group/other scheme? > > I think that it recognises files ending in ".exe" and special-cases > them. > > > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe > > # file: /cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe > > # owner: Administratoren > > # group: none > > user::rwx > > group::--- > > group:SYSTEM:rwx > > group:Benutzer:r-x > > ^ > > with ------------| > > > > So it is executable. But ugo rights do not show this > > You're right. But as far as I know most unix utilities don't know about > ACLs and only recognise standard 777 type permissions.
perl only checks ACLs if you ask it to. What does: $ perl -e 'use filetest "access"; if ( ! -x "/cygdrive/c/Programme/NSIS/NSIS.exe" ) {print "not executable";}' not executable show? -- 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/