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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:38:51 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: linda w <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?
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linda w 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;)


Gerrit
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