From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932426AbWEMOAy (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 10:00:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932433AbWEMOAy (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 10:00:54 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:46764 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932426AbWEMOAx (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 May 2006 10:00:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Executable shell scripts From: Arjan van de Ven To: Douglas McNaught Cc: Mark Rosenstand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87r72yi346.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org> References: <20060513103841.B6683146AF@hunin.borkware.net> <1147517786.3217.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060513110324.10A38146AF@hunin.borkware.net> <1147518432.3217.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <87r72yi346.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 16:00:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1147528850.3217.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Every Unix I've ever seen works this way. It'd be nice to have > unreadable executable scripts, but no one's ever done it. hmm I'm less convinced of what that would bring anyone. Just like you can get to the content of elf files anyway, you can get to the content of the script (just attach a debugger for example) execute == read + action