Bug in csh/tcsh 6.12 (and later): ignoring 'x' attribute on files in path
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 8 09:22:00 GMT 2004
On Jul 7 01:20, Tim Hubberstey wrote:
> It appears that csh/tcsh executes any file it finds that matches the
> filename specified as a command, regardless of whether or not the 'x'
> bit is set. I have run the following check on both 6.12 and the latest,
> 6.13-2, on 3 different computers, with the same results.
>
> % ls -l not_a_script
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 Administ None 20 Jul 6 23:49 not_a_script
>
> % cat not_a_script
> echo This is wrong!
>
> % not_a_script
> This is wrong!
It turned out to be a buglet in Cygwin which didn't check for executablity
when it found that a script should be executed. I've checked in a fix.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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