X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Message-id: <4F91A0E9.6020606@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:46:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable? References: <20120420162718 DOT GK22155 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F204483626 AT A1DAL1SWPES19MB DOT ams DOT acs-inc DOT net> <4F919CF3 DOT 70204 AT cygwin DOT com> <4F919ECB DOT 3050909 AT gmail DOT com> In-reply-to: <4F919ECB.3050909@gmail.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 4/20/2012 1:37 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote: > On 2012-4-21 1:29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> 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"? >> > > It doesn't work any more. You cannot restart a new terminal, either. You > will be trapped here. Ah, I didn't realize that Ken did this in /bin. You could use cacls in this case as an alternative to reinstalling. -- 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