UNZIP: Why don't .exe/.dll files get eXecute privs?
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sat Aug 15 04:40:00 GMT 2009
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Why would DLLs need execute?
because otherwise windows will refuse to load them, and the application
you just launched which needs that DLL will fail with an ugly message
about "Failed to initialize: 0xc0000005".
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Chuck
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