[bug-notifications] [findutils 0004682]: -executable option not working

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4682 
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Reported By:                flod
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    findutils
Issue ID:                   4682
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-02-01 22:52 CET
Last Modified:              2011-05-26 01:42 CEST
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Summary:                    -executable option not working
Description: 
The "-executable" option is meant to select executable files and searchable
directories.
The option does not work with
4.4.2,REV=2009.06.08
as expected.
I cross-checked the results I hoped for under my Linux installation.

The man page says that the difference between -perm and -executable is
that the latter takes more complex things into account like acls.
So the option would be useful but does not work as expected.



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 (0009082) jay (reporter) - 2011-05-26 01:42
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4682#c9082 
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So, find is behaving correctly and as documented.   This is not a findutils
bug.

You might want to find out why access(2) indicates that a file is
executable when an actual attempt to execute it will fail.