Executable bit check

[Illia Bobyr]

On 11/4/2010 8:14 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> [...]
>>>> What does 'getfacl abc' say?
>> >
>>> $ getfacl abc
>>> # file: abc
>>> # owner: ibobyr
>>> # group: Domain Users
>>> user::rw-
>>> group::r--
>>> group:SYSTEM:rwx
>>> group:Administrators:rwx
>>> group:Users:r-x
>>> mask:rwx
>>> other:r--
>
> <snip>
>
>>>> There's more to permissions than just the 9 unix mode bits.  You 
>>>> really
>>>> CAN execute the file if test -x says you can; the question should 
>>>> rather
>>>> be why 'chmod -x' didn't remove all execute permissions, and that
>>>> usually boils down to ACL settings.
>
> So, are you part of the 'Users' or 'Administrators' group?  If so, you
> have executable permission from the ACL.  Try removing those.

Both, I guess - it is the default Windows XP setup.

The problem is that it all happens in a git test script.  The file is 
created by the script and the checks are done by the script.  And the 
script it used on a number of systems.
Script does approximately the following:

cat <<EOF >abc
....
EOF
chmod -x abc
text ! -x abc


Larry Hall pointed out that it is probably the chmod "problem" that 
after "chmod -x" I can still run abc as an executable.  "test ! -x abc" 
just conforms that the file is still indeed executable.

POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition) says

     "It is implementation-defined whether and how the /chmod/ utility 
affects any alternate or additional file access control mechanism [...] 
being used for the specified file."

(http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/chmod.html)


I wonder what is the behavior on any other system.  Is there anyone with 
a variant of Unix or Linix with ACLs set up to do the same test?
Maybe there is any de facto standard?


I guess I can replace

test ! -x abc

with

{ ls -l abc | awk '/^.........x/ { exit 0 } { exit 1 }'; }

in this particular case.  But if you have any other suggestion I would 
like to hear it :)