Subject: Re: [PATCH] disable post-checkout test on Cygwin

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:59:09 +0100

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Alex Riesen <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> It is broken because of the tricks we have to play with
>> lstat to get the bearable perfomance out of the call.
>> Sadly, it disables access to Cygwin's executable attribute,
>> which Windows filesystems do not have at all.
> 
> Hmm, perhaps when checking hooks to see if they are executable, Cygwin
> port should avoid using the "tricks"?  Compared to paths inside the
> worktree the number of hooks is a lot smaller, no?

Hmm. Nowadays, we run hooks through run_hook() in run_command.c. It uses
access(..., X_OK), not lstat(). We don't play games with access(), do we?

-- Hannes