Turning off execute permission

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul McFerrin on 3/7/2009 12:49 AM:
> 
> I've been reading:
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files
> on the execute permissions.  Did I read that it was impossible to deny
> execute permissions??  In my tests, the follow is always "true" if a
> file has no execute permissions: (mode 666 or 000)
>  [ -x apachectl ]
>  test -x apachectl
> for all of the shells

Are you operating as an administrator?  Just as in Linux, the superuser
has the privilege of executing any file regardless of its permissions.
test -x uses access() and not stat() to determine the answer of whether
the file is executable for the currently logged on user, so this is
accurately reporting what you are able to do with the file, regardless of
what the permission bits are on the file.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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