Re: [RFD]: Execute permission for DLLs?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On NTFS partitions, NT/W2K require the execute permission for DLLs to
>allow loading a DLL on process startup.
>
>That's no problem unless a person using `ntsec' gets a tar archive
>packed by a person not using `ntsec' or packing on a FAT partition.
>Since Cygwin fakes the execute permission only for the suffixes
>"exe", "bat", "com", DLLs are treated as non executable by the
>stat() call when `ntsec' isn't set.
>
>When a person using `ntsec' unpacks that tar archive, the start of
>an application which requires one of the DLLs from the archive will
>fail with the Windows message
>
>  "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)"
>
>which isn't that meaningful for most of the users.
>
>To solve that problem we would have to do a simple step. Fake
>execute permissions for DLLs when `ntsec' isn't set or the file
>system doesn't support ACLs (FAT/FAT32).
>
>Thoughts?

Are you saying that we *always* turn executable permissions on when
we create a DLL file on NT?  That makes sense to me.

cgf