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eviks on Dec 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus

> What would test -x say on Windows, which has no executable bit?

It would say whether the file extension is executable (part of pathext env variable)

pie_flavor on Dec 29, 2024 [–]

I should think it says the same thing as on Linux, since there absolutely is an 'executable bit' (GENERIC_EXECUTE) in the ACL.

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