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Re: perl -x doesn't recognize file as executable
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?
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