Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Is the X bit enough to exec the file?
Message-ID: <669@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 Mar 88 10:47:20 GMT
References: <1408@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1408@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes:
>I've notices some strange behavior execing programs.  I wonder is  this the way
>Minix is designed, a bug in my own Minix version or something to be fixed.
>
>It seems if the user does not have permission to read the file, he cannot
>execute it.
>

It may well be a bug.  It is sort of clear how it happened.  MM tries to
read the file.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)