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From: mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: why not exec file with --x ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.155329.5771@MDI.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 91 15:53:29 GMT
References: <10640@unlisys.in-berlin.de> <1991Apr4.161759.4354@dsuvax.uucp>
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In article <1991Apr4.161759.4354@dsuvax.uucp> ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services
>helmer@sdnet.bitnet, dsuvax!ghelmer@wunoc.wustl.edu, wupost!dsuvax!ghelmer
>"I'm a cowboy, on a keyboard I ride..."
>                                        -- with apologies to Bon Jovi

I'm sure I've seen at least one set of fixes for this go by on the net.
I never installed them as I can live with the problem and expect that
the next upgrade (using PH 1.5, AKA 1.5.10 as a baseline) will fix
it.

I've seen banter about 1.6.x on the net.  Anybody know if a fix for
this is already in place at that revision level?

Any chance of a thumbnail sketch of planning for the next net upgrade?
When?  What revision level? What changes from 1.5.10?  No commitments,
just a hint about what the current thinking is.

-- 
mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)