Re: FEATURE: Icon Resource in application binaries

[Ionut Cotoi <cotty cotty iren ro>]

Usualy this "read" permission accompanies the exec bit.

Ionut Cotoi
Junior Developer
ITC Networks Romania


On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:50, Olaf Frączyk wrote: 
> 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