Symlinks, executability, system attribute, etc (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT])

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:44:13AM +1300, Mark Hadfield wrote:
> Another thought about symlinks, executability etc. IF a change like
> Corinna's proposal is adopted and IF some time in the future support for
> current-style symlinks is dropped (or can be turned off optionally) then
> Cygwin will know that all symlinks have the extension .lnk and it will no
> longer need to use the system attribute for that purpose. Could the Windows
> system attribute then be used to indicate executability,i.e. the rule would
> be that a file is executable if the extension is .exe etc OR the system
> attribute is set. Voila, no need to look inside files for #!

There's already no need to look into the file when `ntsec' is used
on NTFS drives. In that case you simply set the x bit.

Corinna

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