From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 06:13:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D0716A41C; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:13:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.village.org (berlin-qwest.village.org [168.103.84.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8DB43D1F; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:13:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5A6CIFI043547; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:12:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:12:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20050610.001218.74707358.imp@bsdimp.com> To: drosih@rpi.edu From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change the executing of a 0-byte file to be an error... X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:13:50 -0000 > It does seem like empty files are also executed without error on a > few other OS's I tried, but I don't understand why that behavior > would be desirable. At one point, true was an empty file with the execute bit set. Warner