<div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>Without knowing much about it, I'd assumed that it might have set the "Read & Execute" permission on the windows file. Someone could always try disabling it and see if it all still works (from a clean build?)<div> <br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Steve<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 December 2010 17:34, Tor Lillqvist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tlillqvist@novell.com" target="_blank">tlillqvist@novell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Actually, I wonder what the point in "making DLLs executable" on Cygwin is. Whether the DLLs in quesiton seem to be "executable" from Cygwin's point of view (i.e. whether the emulated imaginary POSIX "mode" of the files have the x bits on or not) is totally irrelevant. Probably that part of the Perl code could be dropped completely.<br> <br> But I would love to be proved wrong, of course... Experimentation needed.<br> <br> --tml<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Steve Butler<br> </div> </div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Steve Butler<br>