Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?

[Max Bowsher]

linda w wrote:
> Is there some reason cygwin needs to return DLL's as executables, as the
> underlying OS doesn't require it (having no 'executable bit').

Wrong, actually the underlying OS *does* require it. It may not have mode 
bits, but it does have ACLs.

Max.


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