On Oct 19 05:53, Andy Koppe wrote: > The executables in the ocaml package have access rights rwx--x--x, > which means non-admins can't run them: > > bash: /usr/bin/ocaml: Permission denied
Execute permissions alone should be sufficient to start an executable, usually. That's a bug in Cygwin. The code spawning a new process tries to open the executable for reading to find out if it's a Cygwin executable, a native Windows executable, or a script. The problem is that the code assumes non-executablity if the couldn't be opened for reading and returns an error. I applied a patch which checks if the file couldn't be opened due to an ACCESS_DENIED. If so, it checks explicitely for executability. If the file is executable, it just assumes a Cygwin executable now. This won't work nicely for native executables, but a file which is non-readable but executable is rather unlikely on the native Win32 level. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat