Re: Allegro NFS Server for Windows - execute permission

Ahmon Dancy <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:07:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.open-source.franz
Message-ID <3550.1057180039@dancy>
>> I am using the NFS server with a QNX target board. I am mounting a directory
>> on my pc that contains executable QNX programs. The problem is that all the
>> files show up in QNX with "rw" and not "rwx" permission so I cannot execute
>> the files. I tried by chance renaming a file to something.exe and it now has
>> "x" permission. Does anyone know a way to get execute permission other than
>> renaming the files?

As you probably know, Microsoft Windows has no concept of an
executable bit like Unix does.  It determines the executableness of a
file by examining the file extension.  

The only (reasonable) alternative to the current behavior is to have
the NFS server report the executable bit set for all files.  Would
that work for you?