Hmm... Thanks for the feedback. I don't suppose anyone has thought about creating a pragma module that lets you make modifications to find_script's behavior? Or does that come to early in perl execution to be amenable to modification by a pragma. If it could work of course it would be something that could only be usefully used as a -m/-M argument on the perl command line, I would guess.

There was this one guy, but a rock fell from the sky and crushed him :)

Hey, my Win32 doesn't croak if there is no execute bit, you can switch to Win32 :D

No, it doesn't happen too early ... UTSL

Will wonders never cease??? Something Win32 is good for...

I don't have time to learn how to make my own pragma to accomplish this, so I'll probably go the make-all-the-scripts-executable route.

--DrWhy

"If God had meant for us to think for ourselves he would have given us brains. Oh, wait..."

It should be fairly trivial, simply locate the point where -x is tested, and add conditional (!SvTRUE( get_sv("sx::y"))

In file util.c in function Perl_find_script

        if (S_ISREG(PL_statbuf.st_mode)
        && cando(S_IRUSR,TRUE,&PL_statbuf)
#if !defined(DOSISH)
        && !SvTRUE( get_sv("sx::y")
        && cando(S_IXUSR,TRUE,&PL_statbuf)
#endif
        )
        {
        xfound = tmpbuf;        /* bingo! */
        break;
        }
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and accompanying badly named pragma

package sx::y;
$sx::y = $VERSION = 0.01;
1;
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when you recompile perl, use as perl -Msx::y -S foo

Untested, so not in patch form