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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/pathnames.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml index 00eb133e7..cdbf9fad6 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml @@ -81,9 +81,8 @@ see <xref linkend="cygdrive"></xref></para> <para>The fourth field describes the mount options associated with the filesystem. It is formatted as a comma separated list of options. It contains at least the type of mount (binary or text) plus -any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type. Recognized -options are binary, text, nouser, user, exec, notexec, cygexec, nosuid, -posix=[0|1]. The meaning of the options is as follows.</para> +any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type. The list of +the options, including their meaning, follows.</para> <screen> acl - Cygwin uses the filesystem's access control lists (ACLs) to @@ -136,14 +135,14 @@ executability, this is not possible on filesystems which don't support permissions at all (like FAT/FAT32), or if ACLs are ignored on filesystems supporting them (see the aforementioned <literal>acl</literal> mount option). In these cases, the following heuristic is used to evaluate if a file is -executable: Files ending in certain extensions (.exe, .com, .bat, .btm, -.cmd) are assumed to be executable. Files whose first two characters begin -with '#!' are also considered to be executable. +executable: Files ending in certain extensions (.exe, .com, .lnk) are +assumed to be executable. Files whose first two characters are "#!", "MZ", +or ":\n" are also considered to be executable. The <literal>exec</literal> option is used to instruct Cygwin that the mounted file is "executable". If the <literal>exec</literal> option is used with a directory then all files in the directory are executable. This option allows other files to be marked as executable and avoids the -overhead of opening each file to check for a '#!'. The +overhead of opening each file to check for "magic" bytes. The <literal>cygexec</literal> option is very similar to <literal>exec</literal>, but also prevents Cygwin from setting up commands and environment variables for a normal Windows program, adding another small performance gain. The |