ocaml packaging issue

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 19 10:06, Andy Koppe wrote:
> 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.

Right, except for scripts which quite obviosuly need read perms.


Corinna

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