Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Martin wrote:
> --- Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > > > > On 30 January 2006 19:23, Martin wrote: > > > > > > > Any response? > > > > TIA > > > > --- Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> I am attempting to invoke a command with execvp/execlp. If a > > > >> file appears in my PATH before the executable desired and has the > > > >> same name as the executable, the first occurrence of the file > > > >> name is used as the executable to invoke. Even though the first > > > >> file is NOT marked as executable. > > > > > > >> Is this normal behavior for execlp/execvp? > > > >> Shouldn't the execution permission be set in order to execute it? > > > > > > Depends on your mountpoints. If the file is found under a > > > mountpoint with the cygexec flag set, it will be assumed to be > > > executable regardless of the x bit in the file's perms. > > > > Also, on FAT filesystems, there are no permission bits[*]... Your > > file may be tripping the executable file detection heuristics, though. > > Igor > > [*] Cygwin can simulate them for you on pure FAT with "ntea", but with > > FAT32 you're SOL. > > In response to your comments: > I ran the testcase from ~/testcases directory. I believe my cygwin.out > file indicates /home is mounted from D:\home (HOME=/home/test). Also, > D: is NTFS. Also, there is nothing special about mount point (no -x > flag was used). This is all shown in cygwin.out. Then you'll just have to run this under strace, and see why it selects that file to execute. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/
