On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:13:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38:51AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, > > > >Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This > >fails for me (on NT4 with NTFS), if it succeeds for you, fine. Change > >the permissions as you like it;) > > I think what's being asked is that we make a special case for dlls so > that, even if the OS says they are executable, cygwin will not call them > executable.
<pedant> But that's not possible without opening them; I can very well have a program file or script named foo.dll that I want to be exectutable. </pedant> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
