Re: SOLVED: Re: SHELL on W2K (gmake 3.79.1) is cmd.exe not /bin/sh

[Mark Ovens <parish at ntlworld dot com>]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Mark Ovens wrote:
> > Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > Get him to run "ls -l /bin/sh" and also "id" and send the output
> > > here.
> >
> > /bin/sh.exe had no perms set (and neither did anything else in /bin)
> >
> > I did a ''chmod 000 /bin/sh.exe'' on my system and got the same
> > problem.
> >
> > I had checked with him early on that sh was executable, but by running
> > it from the command line, and it worked. Just to test this I tried
> > myself:
> >
> > marder-1:~{32}$ ls -l /bin/sh.exe
> > -rwx------+   1 marko    None        69632 Jul 31  2002 /bin/sh.exe
> > marder-1:~{33}$ chmod 000 /bin/sh.exe
> > marder-1:~{34}$ ls -l /bin/sh.exe
> > ----------+   1 marko    None        69632 Jul 31  2002 /bin/sh.exe
> > marder-1:~{35}$ /bin/sh
> > \h:\w{\#}$ exit
> > marder-1:~{36}$
> >
> > That shouldn't work, surely? Without the execute bit set it should
> > throw a "Command not found" or similar.
>
> This weirdness arises due to the difficulties in mapping ACLs to Unix
> permission bits. (Actually, the very latest, just released, not yet on all
> the mirrors, version 1.3.21 of cygwin has an improvement relating to this.)

Thanks for the explanation, that's useful to know. In future I'll check 
the perms rather than just try running from the command line when 
testing for executableness.

Regards,

Parish

> Max.




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