Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Rosenstand <> | Subject | Re: Executable shell scripts | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 13:27:54 +0200 (CEST) |
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Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote: > It needs to be readable as well. What ends up happening is that the > kernel sees the execute bit, looks at the shebang line and then does: > > /bin/sh test > > Since read permission is off, the shell's open() call fails. It will > work fine if you use 755 as the permissions. > > Every Unix I've ever seen works this way. It'd be nice to have > unreadable executable scripts, but no one's ever done it.
According to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html both 4.3BSD and SunOS have. I can confirm that it works on current BSD's as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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