From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: mysterious bash problem
17 Jan 1998 15:39:01 -0800
Message-ID: <19980114131619.11340.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
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To: Ulrich DOT Lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

It might help to see foo.  UNIX shell scripts must begin with #! 
/path/to/shelltoexecute.  If you were on UNIX you would then have to set 
the executable bit on the file properties/permissions.  The cygwin.dll 
layer tries to mimick as much of UNIX as it can.  Since the file doesn't 
begin with #! you will not see the executable bit set on the permissions 
as that is how it determines if the file is executable.

I have noticed that the gnu-win32 bash will try to execute the script 
even without the #! indicator.  This is a bug as bash should error 
without this indicator.  For more information see the bash.info file.

>From: Ulrich Lauther <ulrich DOT lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de>
>Subject: mysterious bash problem
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 09:31:23 +0100 (MET)
>Reply-To: Ulrich DOT Lauther AT mchp DOT siemens DOT de
>
>
>On one NT host where I don't know who fiddled with what happens
>the following:
>
>Let foo be a valid shell script (starting with a ":" in the first line, 
BTW):
>
>bash$ foo
>
>gives:
>
>bash.exe: ./foo: (null)
>
>however,
>
>bash$ bash foo
>
>results in normal execution of the script
>
>this doesn't happen with all scripts, just some.
>
>ls -l gives -rw-r--r-- in all cases
>
>What the hell is going on here?
>-- 
>	-ulrich
>
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