Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb > Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote: > >>> you're confusing the shell's "is this file executable" check with >>> the loader's "can I execute this file" check: >>> >>> $ export PATH=.:$PATH >>> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=ls count=1 >>> 1+0 records in >>> 1+0 records out >>> $ ls -l ls >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 slab slab 512 Dec 20 03:33 ls >>> $ chmod a+x ls >>> $ ls >>> -bash: ./ls: cannot execute binary file >> >> ??? >> Am I blind or is there really no difference between you shell example >> an mine? >> As far as I can see, you are doing exactly the same thing as I did... > > no, I'm showing that a local file marked as executable overrides a > shared one, even if the local file isn't actually an executable.
Well, that doesn't tell us anything about, whether a file executable or not. But anyway: you admit, that the local file "ls" is __not__ actually executable, although it has the x-bit set? >> So what are trying to proof? > > that you're wrong when you claim that the contents of the file matters > when using the usual Unix conventions to check if a file is > executable. Let me ask you a question: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:09:52] >> ~/test --> cat test.sh #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" ]; then echo "Hello $1" else echo "Hello world" fi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:09:54] >> ~/test --> ll test.sh -rw-r--r-- 1 lunar lunar 76 2006-12-21 13:09 test.sh Is test.sh now executable or not? Bye lunar -- Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. (Rosa Luxemburg) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list