On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 03:36 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > Thanks for prompt reply. By this I am assuming that a > > Makefile/makefile and its contents are not deemed a mandatory > > executable as opposed to a *.sh? I am unclear as to what is happening > > under the hood as I thought anything that "executes" needs to be "+x"? > > Makefile doesn't execute.... the "make" command executes. As I > mentioned, Makefile is just input to make (a.k.a. /usr/bin/make). > > I don't know what you mean by *.sh since the concept of extensions > doesn't exist under Linux. But you may also be interested to know that > "shell" scripts (or files containing shell scripts) need not be executable. > > [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox > -rwxrwxr-x. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox > [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ./killfox > firefox-bin: no process found > plugin-container: no process found > > But also.... > > [egreshko@meimei bin]$ chmod -x killfox > [egreshko@meimei bin]$ ll killfox > -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 63 May 25 2011 killfox > [egreshko@meimei bin]$ sh ./killfox > firefox-bin: no process found > plugin-container: no process found > > > > <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users><http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > HI What is in killfox?? Marvin
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