[darcs-users] New Windows binary for darcs 2.2.0rc1 available

[Max Battcher]

Trent W. Buck wrote:
> zooko <zooko at zooko.com> writes:
> 
>> I figured out the mysterious filesystem state -- it was the +x bits on
>> the .dll's.  Once I ran chmod +x *.dll, everything worked.  Thanks
>> again, Salvatore!
> 
> Admittedly I don't know anything about Windows, but surely it's not
> normal for *libraries* to require their execute bit set?  Is this a bug?

Windows will not load libraries without the execute ACL...  (This 
follows from the VMS legacy in modern Windows ACLs.  Unlike Unix, VMS 
and Windows require execute privileges for any executable code loaded 
including indirectly loaded stuff like libraries...)

The lesson here is probably not to do Windows ACL munging with Unix-like 
(Cygwin) commands... or perhaps that Windows ACLs can ultimately be more 
strict than Unix ones, but are hardly ever used that way...

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