file execute access with noacl mount with Cygwin-1.7.0 20090518 snapshot

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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