std.path.getName(): Screwy by design?

[Kagamin]

Daniel Gibson Wrote:

> >> The only way _anything_ is executable in *nix is if its executable flag is set. 
> >> Extensions mean _nothing_ as far as executability goes.
> > 
> > As you can see, there's an ambiguity here: script is not executed directly in the same sense as machine code, so it may be not called an execution and not require executable flag to be interpreted. Actual application beign executed is interpreter. So the question is whether a script have to be flagged executable in order to run interpreter on it.
> 
> On *nix: Yes. Scripts have to be flagged executable. (Of course you can start a
> non-executable script with e.g. bash foo.sh)

I suppose, the flag on a script is checked "manually" by the shell, and on a binary - by the OS.