Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F3CAEFF.6080604@sanger.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:59:27 +0100 From: Rob Clack Organization: Sanger Institute User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030326 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: perl test fails Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Not sure if this is the right list for my question. cygwin 1.3.22-1 running under NT4. I have a perl script that runs an executable, so before actually running it, the code checks that the file exists and is executable, but the test fails under cygwin. Under linux and OSF1 it's fine. I cut out the relevant fragments and built a demo. The idea is that if the "if ( -x script )" works correctly, then I should get "script is executable" as output. Otherwise, it will execute the script, in which case the output will be what the script prints. Hope someone can tell me why -x doesn't work the way I'm expecting. Thanks Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl # this is the perl script, called "try" if ( -x script) { print "script is executable"; } else { system("./script"); } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # This is the 'executable'. For the demo, it's just a script with +x # permissions echo "I damn well am!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # Here is the output I get rnc@ramsey ~ $ ./try I damn well am! rnc@ramsey ~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Clack Acedb Development, Informatics Group email: rnc@sanger.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Tel: +44 1223 494780 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Fax: +44 1223 494919 Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/