On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 22:56, Ionut Cotoi wrote: > Hey, we don't want to make things THAT UNIVERSAL... nobody said > that.... > We can put away the part with the scripts (even though it is not that > hard), there is no such thing on any other platform either (not that > we shouldn't come up with something original from time to time), but > embedding something at link-time in to the elf header that can be > afterwords read by a file manager, it's not hard. > I think that we should focus on what would be cleaner to implement for > the elf executable format, and Linux in particular. I think you all miss one important thing. With you resolution you require that the "read" permission is set. You don't need _read_ permission to execute a binary. The only bit which is needed is _execute_. About putting icons in EAs. You need to check what limitations are for size of a single EA and all EAs per directory entry. And what about filesystems without EAs then? Regards, Olaf