From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Why /usr/bin/*.dll must be executable?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F91A0E9.6020606@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F919ECB.3050909@gmail.com>
On 4/20/2012 1:37 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
> 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.
Ah, I didn't realize that Ken did this in /bin. You could use cacls in
this case as an alternative to reinstalling.
--
Larry
_____________________________________________________________________
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-20 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 13:03 De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 13:05 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 13:08 ` Václav Zeman
2012-04-20 16:18 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 16:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-04-20 17:25 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2012-04-20 17:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 17:37 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 17:46 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2012-04-20 17:40 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2012-04-20 17:32 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 17:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 17:47 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 17:58 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 18:21 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-20 18:43 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 22:10 ` Mike Kaganski
2012-04-22 2:29 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 18:05 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-23 19:01 ` Warren Young
2012-04-23 20:16 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-23 22:13 ` Warren Young
2012-04-23 23:55 ` Richard Troy
2012-04-24 0:19 ` Warren Young
2012-04-24 16:49 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-04-20 19:06 ` Jon TURNEY
2012-04-21 3:37 ` De-Jian Zhao
2012-04-23 19:02 ` Warren Young
2012-04-23 19:26 ` David Sastre Medina
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