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. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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