On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:38:51AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>More to the point, what would "break" in the cygwin environment, > >Try to chmod 644 any dll and call a program that uses this dll. This >fails for me (on NT4 with NTFS), if it succeeds for you, fine. Change >the permissions as you like it;)
I think what's being asked is that we make a special case for dlls so that, even if the OS says they are executable, cygwin will not call them executable. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/