From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@uoregon.edu>
To: Mark Rosenstand <mark@borkware.net>
Cc: Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>,
arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Executable shell scripts
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:37:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4465C508.6050201@uoregon.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060513112754.1CA99146AF@hunin.borkware.net>
Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
>> It needs to be readable as well. What ends up happening is that the
>> kernel sees the execute bit, looks at the shebang line and then does:
>>
>> /bin/sh test
>>
>> Since read permission is off, the shell's open() call fails. It will
>> work fine if you use 755 as the permissions.
>>
>> 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.
>
> According to
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html both 4.3BSD
> and SunOS have. I can confirm that it works on current BSD's as
> well.
The faq you're refering to is 10-12 years old. 4.3BSD isn't relevant to
anyone beyond historians at this point.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-13 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-13 10:38 Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 10:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-13 11:03 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 11:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-13 11:17 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 11:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-13 11:19 ` Douglas McNaught
2006-05-13 11:27 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 11:37 ` Joel Jaeggli [this message]
2006-05-13 12:59 ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-13 13:18 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 22:42 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-13 11:28 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-13 11:37 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-13 12:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-13 14:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-13 20:52 ` Douglas McNaught
2006-05-13 11:16 ` J.A. Magallón
2006-05-13 11:22 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-05-13 11:45 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 11:56 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-05-13 12:23 ` Mark Rosenstand
2006-05-13 12:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-13 18:55 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-05-13 11:23 ` CaT
2006-05-13 11:00 ` Willy Tarreau
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