[Wrong list. Resent to cygwin-apps] Hi,
Here's the problem: If you exec shell scripts, they should only be run if the user trying to run the script has execute permissions on the script. This requires to check for executability in Cygwin, but as of today, such a check isn't performed in Cygwin. I have the patch for this ready, but I found that it would potentially break a couple of packages which have not set execute permissions on some of their script files. As you should know by now, setup for Cygwin 1.7 will set POSIX file permissions for the files extracted from the tar archives. That means, all scripts which don't have execute permissions set, will also not have execute permissions set after the user installed them. That's bad. So I created a list of packages which install scripts into /etc/preremove, /etc/postinstall, and /usr/bin without setting execute permissions on them. Please guys, fix the permissions ASAP. Corinna Vinschen: robots: etc/postinstall/robots.sh Reini Urban: perl: usr/bin/cpan5.10.0 usr/bin/shasum5.10.0 Christian Franke: ddrescue: etc/postinstall/ddrescue.sh Jari Aalto: colorgcc: etc/postinstall/colorgcc.sh joe: etc/postinstall/joe-manifest.lst Frank Seelisch: singular-icons: etc/postinstall/singular-icons.sh Dave Korn: gcc-core: etc/postinstall/gcc.sh etc/preremove/gcc.sh gcc-gnat: etc/postinstall/gcc-gnat.sh etc/preremove/gcc-gnat.sh gcc-gdc: etc/postinstall/gcc-gdc.sh etc/preremove/gcc-gdc.sh gcc-gpc: etc/postinstall/gcc-gpc.sh etc/preremove/gcc-gpc.sh gcc-g++: etc/postinstall/gcc-g++.sh etc/preremove/gcc-g++.sh gcc-g77: etc/postinstall/gcc-g77.sh etc/preremove/gcc-g77.sh gcc-java: etc/postinstall/gcc-java.sh etc/preremove/gcc-java.sh Yaakov S: perl-extutils-pkgconfig: etc/postinstall/perl-ExtUtils-Pk libgnome2: etc/preremove/libgnome2.sh gnome-vfs: etc/preremove/gnome-vfs2.sh ilibIDL: etc/postinstall/libIDL.sh libIDL2: etc/postinstall/libIDL2.sh Btw., DLLs should also be executable, otherwise applications will fail to start. I found one of them: glib: usr/bin/cyggmodule-1-2-0.dll Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat