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Re: file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 20090518 snapshot
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:31:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 20090518 snapshot
- References: <COL102-W652563D05A10246186BB68B5590@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 20 20:59, Karl M wrote:
>
> Hi All...
>
> I just tried executing a file on my desktop as /c/Users/me/Desktop/file.exe in Vista Business SP1.
>
> The file would not tab complete in bash and an ls -al showed no execute access.
>
> Do I need to add the exec or cygexec explicitly, or should that be the default with noacl?
That's a bug in Cygwin. The "noacl" mount flag was ignored on filesystems
which support ACLs, when handling executability.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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