Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?
De-Jian Zhao
dejian.zhao@gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 17:37:00 GMT 2012
On 2012-4-21 1:29, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 4/20/2012 1:25 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> From: Corinna Vinschen
>>> Windows requires the x bit for DLLs to be loadable as executable code
>>> into the address space of a process. As Václav wrote, it's a Windows
>>> thing.
>>
>> So, I had to play with "chmod -x cyg*.dll" and, of course, it
>> totally hosed Cygwin. I recovered by reinstalling from scratch
>> only after realizing that ATTRIB did not have an option to re-
>> establish X--we're talking XP here. So, as this is a Windows
>> thing, wondering how, through Windows, I could restore execute
>> access to the DLLs.
>
> What's wrong with "chmod +x cyg*.dll"?
>
It doesn't work any more. You cannot restart a new terminal, either. You
will be trapped here.
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