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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:31:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: [RFD]: Execute permission for DLLs?
To: cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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--- Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On NTFS partitions, NT/W2K require the execute permission for DLLs to
> allow loading a DLL on process startup.
> 
> That's no problem unless a person using `ntsec' gets a tar archive
> packed by a person not using `ntsec' or packing on a FAT partition.
> Since Cygwin fakes the execute permission only for the suffixes
> "exe", "bat", "com", DLLs are treated as non executable by the
> stat() call when `ntsec' isn't set.
> 
> When a person using `ntsec' unpacks that tar archive, the start of
> an application which requires one of the DLLs from the archive will
> fail with the Windows message
> 
>   "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)"
> 
> which isn't that meaningful for most of the users.
> 
> To solve that problem we would have to do a simple step. Fake
> execute permissions for DLLs when `ntsec' isn't set or the file
> system doesn't support ACLs (FAT/FAT32).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Lame windows.  Sounds like the correct workaround.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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