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

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via cygwin cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 6 22:28:00 GMT 2019


> I did read the thread.

Really?

> which you confirmed after the fact.

Oh really?  Then read again:

In my initial post that started the entire thread I wrote:

> On Unix, an empty file can only be executed (exit code 0) if there's the "x" permission granted.

So what's your deal, exactly?


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