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Mark Rosenstand wrote: > 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. The faq you're refering to is 10-12 years old. 4.3BSD isn't relevant to anyone beyond historians at this point. > - > 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/ -- ------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli (joelja@uoregon.edu) GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 - 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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