Re: dealing with executable shell scripts

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > [Relying on source-code execute bits always being correctly maintained
> > is one of those things that ... well... doesn't really feel very robust.
> > I dunno, maybe it's just me...]
>
> Doesn't every package with a configure script rely on this?  I suppose
> that people could chmod +x the configure script before running it, but
> I've never had to do that.

Not all operating systems support the notion of "execute bits", 
including the most popular operating system.

Bob
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