Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <009001c4fba2$54223c20$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "linda w" , References: <41E9D722.3010306@tlinx.org> Subject: Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable? Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:06:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam linda w wrote: > Is there some reason cygwin needs to return DLL's as executables, as the > underlying OS doesn't require it (having no 'executable bit'). Wrong, actually the underlying OS *does* require it. It may not have mode bits, but it does have ACLs. Max. -- 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/