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Re: tetex 2.99
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:13:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: tetex 2.99
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0501162201020.14154@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> <200501170710500.SM01380@xuanson> <20050117170128.GG20403@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:01:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:09:04PM +0100, Dr Jekyll wrote:
>>Hi, the tetex package of Cygwin is not up to date. Have anyone here succeed
>>in installing the tetex 2.99? Can you share your experience? I'm done!
>
>Good point. You can't just indiscriminately assume that DLLs are not
>executable since that would mean that the user would have no way to
>control this behavior.
>
>OTOH, I don't think we automatically have to flag DLLs on a
>non-acl-aware FS as executable either. Currently DLLs always show
>up as executable. I don't know how much work it would take to change
>this and I'm not particularly inclined to look into it but this is
>probably somewhere in the stat_worker function.
Yes. I meant to do that.
cgf