Empty file without "x" permission is successfully executable on Cygwin

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 6 19:09:00 GMT 2019


> zero-sized? Irrelevant.

It is actually very relevant.  Because executing an empty script results in "success" (exit code 0) -- that creates a false-positive.

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