dumb question

[Marvin Kosmal]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell at cs.cmu.edu>wrote:

> To the list:
>
> I am dealing with a primary Fedora machine and a alternate WinXP under
> cygwin. Cygwin always screw up the permissions when I drag stuff over to it
> and then bring it back to the Fedora box. I've got scripts to handle making
> things right again.
>
> But I did have a question which I didn't find out from Googling (as I
> suspect I didn't know how to phrase it). On a Fedora/Linux box, do
> Makefile/makefile (s) have to be set to +x? Or can they be just "rw-r--r--"?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
> --
>



Paul

To execute/run  a file it must be set to x

as in

rwxr--r--
or

rwxrwxr--


HTH

Marvin
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