> This is not the default exactly because of its nature.
> It is unusable. You will not be able to run scripts from such mount point.

No problem for me, I have my scripts in my cygwin home/bin. Why put them 
outside? That's their environment.

> However, I don't quite understand the nature of the issue here. Why not assume
> all files "executable", and only check the magic word, when we actually trying
> to execute them?

True.
Or all normal files like exe, com, bat, sh as executable, and the other ones 
manually with chmod. That information could be saved in a sqlite DB. Just an 
idea ;)

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