On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Volker Simonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > this is a known problem and it it noticed at the top of the download > page at http://download.java.net/jdk6/ :
> "If you choose to download and install self-extracting JRE or DEBUG > Jar bundles then you need to change the file permission to be > executable in the bin directory after the installation." Thanks. I missed that. > I think this is because of a long standing problem which doesn't allow > the Java zip-classes to create executable files on *nix (i.e. there's > no standard Java API which allows the manipulation of file access > permissions on *nix except setting the read-only bit). Of course, we would like better access to the OS from Java APIs, and JSR 203 is providing that, but today there's no reason a Java program can't simply run /bin/chmod in a subprocess. It's not like the installer is portable anyways, with a string like "linux-i586" in its name. Furthermore, the installer for the JDK actually works! Why not use the same one for the JRE? Martin
