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Re: cygwin performance
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>Although, hmm. I just tried this and bash still executed a file that
>>should be non-executable. I'll have to see why.
>
>bash walks down the PATH looking for anything that matches the name.
>It remembers the first match but keeps walking until it finds an
>executable. If no executable is found, it returns the first match, if
>any. If it's a directory, too bad (a non-executable file can be masked
>by a directory).
Um, yeah but it shouldn't be able to execute a non-executable file. It's
a (minor) cygwin problem.
cgf
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