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Re: Shell scripts on FAT volumes
On Aug 21 17:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 21 15:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > [Cygwin latest snapshot]
> >
> > I just noticed (on two different Windows XP) Cygwin installation that
> > Shebang shell scripts are not executable on FAT32 volumes
> > [...]
> > Is that expected behaviour?
>
> Right now, yes. I have disabled code which sets the x bit by reading
> the first bytes of a file to figure out if it starts with magic chars
> like '#!'. The reason I disabled this code in the first place is the
> fact that it's not thread safe.
I just applied a patch which re-enables this code in a thread safe manner.
Corinna
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