tetex 2.99

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 17 17:14:00 GMT 2005


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



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