ocaml packaging issue

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 09:06:00 GMT 2009


2009/10/19 Corinna Vinschen:
>> 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.

You're right. I had wondered the same thing, so I did 'chmod go-r
/usr/bin/ocaml' on Debian and got:

$ ocaml
Fatal error: cannot find file /usr/bin/ocaml

But I guess that must have been the ocaml executable trying to read
itself, because trying the same thing with other programs, there's no
problem.

Andy



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