----- Oorspronkelijk e-mail ----- > On 02/07/2012 02:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 02/07/2012 07:59 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> I was wondering wether I couldn't write something like > >> > >> if [not on NTFS filesystem] then > >> chmod +x > > > > No doubt you can write something like that. > > I don't use NTFS, so I'm not a good source of advice > > about the details. > > And if you listen to the advice from autoconf, it would be better to > do > things like: > > probe whether chmod +x 2>/dev/null makes a difference on a dummy file > based on that probe, control whether to skip all other chmod +x > > by rewriting things as a feature-based probe (does chmod +x work or > spit > out noise), rather than a name-based probe (am I on NTFS), your > script > will be more portable to other file systems that share NTFS > shortcomings, as well as automatically start using chmod +x if the > kernel folks later figure out a way to make NTFS fake chmod +x in a > reasonable manner.
This is an very usefull hint. Do you perhaps have a snippet of bash code for it? Best regards, Francky > -- > Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >
