On 8/6/2019 4:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> > > When the exec family of functions is called for a script-like > file, the av::setup function handles the exec[vl]p case as > well. The execve case for files not starting with a she-bang > is handled first by returning ENOEXEC. Only after that, the > file's executability is checked. > > This leads to the problem that ENOEXEC is returned for non-executable > files as well. A calling shell interprets this as a file it should try > to run as script. This is not desired for non-executable files. > > Fix this problem by checking the file for executability first. Only > after that, follow the other potential code paths. > --- > winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc | 12 ++++++------ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc > index 7f7af4449da1..d95772802f8f 100644 > --- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc > @@ -1172,6 +1172,12 @@ av::setup (const char *prog_arg, path_conv& real_path, > const char *ext, > } > UnmapViewOfFile (buf); > just_shell: > + /* Check if script is executable. Otherwise we start non-executable > + scripts successfully, which is incorrect behaviour. */ > + if (real_path.has_acls () > + && check_file_access (real_path, X_OK, true) < 0) > + return -1; /* errno is already set. */ > + > if (!pgm) > { > if (!p_type_exec) > @@ -1188,12 +1194,6 @@ av::setup (const char *prog_arg, path_conv& real_path, > const char *ext, > arg1 = NULL; > } > > - /* Check if script is executable. Otherwise we start non-executable > - scripts successfully, which is incorrect behaviour. */ > - if (real_path.has_acls () > - && check_file_access (real_path, X_OK, true) < 0) > - return -1; /* errno is already set. */ > - > /* Replace argv[0] with the full path to the script if this is the > first time through the loop. */ > replace0_maybe (prog_arg);
LGTM, and I've confirmed that it fixes the problem reported in http://www.cygwin.org/ml/cygwin/2019-08/msg00054.html. Ken
