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Re: how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of '


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of 'extensions'
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:36:06 -0400
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On 7/12/10 6:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I have a long standing problem under cygwin in that when I type
> a prefix of 1 or more executables and hit the expand character (ESC),
> it lists out all the DLL's in my system path.
> 
> I NEVER want to execute libraries directly.  Many or most are
> not executables -- yet bash lists them.  In Windows, the
> 'exec' bit doesn't mean it is an executable -- it means
> it is executable code that can be loaded into an executable
> segment of memory.  Files that don't have that bit set get
> loaded into memory (on properly configured systems) that
> has a "NX:Not eXecutable" bit set, that disallows execution.
> 
> Anyway -- it's more of an OS thing than a strictly a user
> thing -- and Windows uses a registry String value:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session
> Manager\Environment\PathExt]
> (example value = ".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC")
> (
>  cygwin bash on win64:
> #>
> PATHEXT="$(<'/proc/registry64/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/Session
> Manager/Environment/PATHEXT')"
> )
> 
> to control what files are executable.
> Not saying this is a bash bug -- as it's really more of how bash
> should be configured on windows platforms (I suppose the same would
> be true for any MING versions of bash as well), but how can bash
> be setup to only display the executables appropriate for the given OS?

You have to modify the source.  findcmd.c:executable_file and
findcmd.c:file_status are the functions to change.  Bash just uses
the standard exec bit.

Chet

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