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.
Martin --- Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- > 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/ > > __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- 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/
