On Monday 25 Aug 2008, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again traditional knowledge says, autorun.inf cannot get executed > > on unix, unless the +x bit is set!! > > > > > > and even if +x bit was set, how did a windoze batch file commands > > work in Linux? > > > > Did u get a chance to open the autorun.inf file and see what it > > contained? > > Actually, it can get executed, at least with Gnome installed. In > fact, even the x bit is not needed. Also, on an ISO9660 filesystem > there would be no way to have an executable bit. > AFAIK, gnome parses the the inf file and brings up a dialog box.
The media was an USB pen drive. The colleague whom I was helping, needed a PDF version of his OO v2.4 Impress presentation like "right now" so I did not get a chance to look at the autorun.inf file. I do not recall if there was a pop up dialog box when I inserted the USB pen drive into my system. -- Arun Khan -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
