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Blame Samba (Score:1)

by Dom2 (2981)

I find that most of the executable file problems that I see are down to samba setting +x as a way of storing the DOS archive file attribute. It sucks, but there you go. It's not like any software actually uses that attribute, anyway...
-Dom
- Re:Blame Samba (Score:2)
  
  by jdavidb (1361)
  
  I've seen that a lot, but this is dBase IV for Solaris UNIX. (Ancient and unsupported.) Users set the x bit either because they don't understand chmod or because they think they have to.
  
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