On 4/20/2012 6:10 PM, Mike Kaganski wrote: <snip>
Any code that may be executed (directly or indirectly) must have "x" under *nix. Windows had tried to make somewhat similar (with the same security concerns in mind) in its NT family, but it had to deal with file systems that have no notion of "executability" (FAT), so the notion was introduced in NTFS, but is not honored (thus, "execute" ACL permission is useless in Windows).
Huh? It is honored on NTFS. I'm assuming that's what you meant.
As Cygwin tries to emulate *nix, I suppose, it explicitly checks executable bit on loading files. So it's not correct to state that "this is completely Windows loader thing", but this thing is conceptually correct, so live with it.
As I said before, Cygwin doesn't run executables. Cygwin is not an O/S. Windows is the O/S. It has the job of running executables, loading them, following any dependencies (DLLs), and loading those. While Cygwin does emulate POSIX permissions using Windows ACE/ACLs, it is up to Windows to enforce these permissions. But setting permissions is not the same as having some control over the loading executables. Sorry. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
