Re: [RFD]: Execute permission for DLLs?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 12:24 PM 10/31/2000, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen 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?
>
>Are you saying that we *always* turn executable permissions on when
>we create a DLL file on NT?  That makes sense to me.
>
>cgf

Right.  This is the conclusion I drew from this as well, rightly or wrongly.


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