On Jun 22 14:38, Dave Korn wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Here's the problem: If you exec shell scripts, they should only be run > > if the user trying to run the script has execute permissions on the > > script. > > Shell scripts don't _have_ to be executable, only if you want to launch one > as if it were a command, rather than sourcing it.
Oh well, I really thought that would go without saying. Yes, sure, you're right. That's at least the case for scripts in /bin or /usr/bin and that's not invalidated by your below objection. > Why don't we just remove the "-c" and get setup.exe to use the simple "bash > <filename>" syntax meaning "treat <filename> as a text file, open it and pipe > it to stdin"? I already suggested this on the cygwin-developers ML back in May (*) but it was not discussed overly enthusiastic (**) (***). Corinna (*) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-05/msg00045.html (**) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-05/msg00047.html (***) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2009-05/msg00050.html -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
