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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: dealing with executable shell scripts |
Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:57:41 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:[Relying on source-code execute bits always being correctly maintained is one of those things that ... well... doesn't really feel very robust. I dunno, maybe it's just me...]Doesn't every package with a configure script rely on this? I suppose that people could chmod +x the configure script before running it, but I've never had to do that.
Not all operating systems support the notion of "execute bits", including the most popular operating system.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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