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RE: tetex 2.99
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'it was a _tactical_ shot'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:39:17 -0000
- Subject: RE: tetex 2.99
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 17 January 2005 17:14
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:01:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:09:04PM +0100, Dr Jekyll wrote:
> >>Hi, the tetex package of Cygwin is not up to date. Have
> anyone here succeed
> >>in installing the tetex 2.99? Can you share your
> experience? I'm done!
> >
> >Good point. You can't just indiscriminately assume that DLLs are not
> >executable since that would mean that the user would have no way to
> >control this behavior.
> >
> >OTOH, I don't think we automatically have to flag DLLs on a
> >non-acl-aware FS as executable either. Currently DLLs always show
> >up as executable. I don't know how much work it would take to change
> >this and I'm not particularly inclined to look into it but this is
> >probably somewhere in the stat_worker function.
>
> Yes. I meant to do that.
That's something I say quite a lot when I'm playing pool.
cheers,
DaveK
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