Dwarf Fortress comes as a .exe as well, but again, it should be run with the included shell script (./df).
Also, I think any C# apps have the ".exe" extension on the binaries by default. But .exe files run with Wine (separate from ELF binaries or CIL stuff which have a .exe extension) shouldn't need to be executable anyway, right? Or does Ubuntu use the kernel's "misc binary loader" option to handle Wine stuff? -----Original Message----- From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-devel-discuss-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Hanson Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:54 PM To: John Dong Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Default vfat file permissions - why executable? On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:28 PM, John Dong <jd...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Usecase described at > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/78505/co mments/10 > > As Colin said, it seems to be more of a cosmetic issue with Nautilus. Thanks. I understand now although I think that binfmt-support is the wrong solution to the problem. Using xdg-open and the filename extension would be easier. Its rather rare to find a ELF with an extension of ".exe". The game Lost Labyrinth (laby.exe) is the only one I know of but users will run it from a desktop menu, not by browsing and clicking the executable in the .../bin directory. I don't like the "click anything to execute it" aspects as it allows the proliferation of unauthenticated applications (and the related malware risks) to easily bypass the relative safety of those from standard repositories in the package management system. The Nautilus dialog is only a minor annoyance. It's the design of the Wine integration that makes it too easy to create "readme.txt" binaries that install malware. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
