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Re: [RFD]: Execute permission for DLLs?
Hi!
Wednesday, 01 November, 2000 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
CF> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:55:55PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
>>i've understood it a bit differently. i think Corinna wants to turn
>>executable bit on when _creating_ tar file on "bad" system which
>>do not support ntsec, not when unpacking it on ntfs+ntsec system.
>>Turning executable permissions on when creating dll is solution too,
>>but for which user will you turn in on? for everyone? i don't think
>>it's a right thing from security point of view. for owner and group?
>>then you won't solve original problem.
CF> Actually, Corinna wanted to have cygwin always consider a .dll extension
CF> as executable.
not always. only if ntsec is off or file system is FAT. if i
intentionally run "chmod o-x some.dll" for some dll on ntfs partition
when ntsec is on, i don't see why cygwin should override it.
CF> I've actually generated this so that if cygwin detects the executable magic
CF> number in the first two bytes of the file it will be considered executable.
CF> That means that a.out files will also appear to be executable.
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