MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Message-id: <4F919CF3.70204@cygwin.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:29:23 -0400
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?
References: <20120420162718.GK22155@calimero.vinschen.de> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F204483626@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net>
In-reply-to: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F204483626@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net>
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On 4/20/2012 1:25 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Corinna Vinschen
>> Windows requires the x bit for DLLs to be loadable as executable code
>> into the address space of a process.  As Václav wrote, it's a Windows
>> thing.
>
> So, I had to play with "chmod -x cyg*.dll" and, of course, it
> totally hosed Cygwin. I recovered by reinstalling from scratch
> only after realizing that ATTRIB did not have an option to re-
> establish X--we're talking XP here.  So, as this is a Windows
> thing, wondering how, through Windows, I could restore execute
> access to the DLLs.

What's wrong with "chmod +x cyg*.dll"?


-- 
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