On Saturday, June 29, 2024, наб via austin-group-l at The Open Group < austin-group-l@opengroup.org> wrote: > > This is a reasonable read I think.
XBD 3.129 describes an executable file as follows: A regular file acceptable as a new process image file by the equivalent of the exec family of functions, and thus usable as one form of a utility. So, `executable' refers to the type of a file, not its having the execute permission bit set. -- Oğuz
