> 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 ;) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple