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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: why not exec file with --x ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.161759.4354@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 4 Apr 91 16:17:59 GMT
References: <10640@unlisys.in-berlin.de>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <10640@unlisys.in-berlin.de> jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) writes:
>why is it not possible to start a file like this:
>-rwx---x--x    bin    bin       blablabla         ????

MM wants to read the executable using the permissions of the user
doing the exec.  Any user except bin would be unable to execute this
file.

>In System V Relaise 3.2 it is allowed...

You should have the source.  Fix it.
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