From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13014 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2012 13:05:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 13005 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Apr 2012 13:05:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f43.google.com) (209.85.160.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:05:17 +0000 Received: by pbcwz12 with SMTP id wz12so1107487pbc.2 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.219.200 with SMTP id pq8mr12942126pbc.55.1334927116972; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.23.176.68] ([120.196.125.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i2sm5323195pbo.6.2012.04.20.06.05.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F915EFC.9040702@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:05:00 -0000 From: De-Jian Zhao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CygwinList Subject: Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable? References: <4F915E65.8070608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F915E65.8070608@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00429.txt.bz2 On 2012-4-20 21:02, De-Jian Zhao wrote: > Hi, > > When I type "cyg" and Tab, many executables starting with "cyg" are > listed (Display all 262 possibilities? (y or n) y). I find that many > of them are *.dll libraries under /usr/bin/. This is inconvenient to > find the real executable applications (*.exe). Since *.dll files are > only libraries, they are not necessary to have the attribute of "x". > Thus, I run the command "chmod a-x /usr/bin/*.dll". Unexpectedly, > cygwin is corrupted. I closed the terminal and failed to restart > Cygwin. I started my older version of Cygwin (I did not deleted it > after installing a new version), and added "x" to the previous *.dll > files. The dead Cygwin revived. > > I am confused why /usr/bin/*.dll should be executable. I thought they > were only library files. When I tried to run a dll file, bash says > "cannot execute binary file". Are there some hidden stories? > > The error messages are as follows: > > Administrator@acer /usr/bin > $ chmod a-x *.dll > > Administrator@acer /usr/bin > $ lh > 18 [main] -bash 4512 fork: child -1 - forked process died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741790, errno 11 > -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 2020930 [main] -bash 4512 fork: child -1 - forked process died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741790, errno 11 > -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 4039235 [main] -bash 4512 fork: child -1 - forked process died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741790, errno 11 > -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 8057832 [main] -bash 4512 fork: child -1 - forked process died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741790, errno 11 > -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable > 16074662 [main] -bash 4512 fork: child -1 - forked process died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741790, errno 11 > -bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > > DJ > lh is an alias to 'ls -lh'. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple