Re: FEATURE: Icon Resource in application binaries

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 22:33, Ionut Cotoi wrote:
> 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
Please reply below message not above.

Yes, it is in most cases. But it is not necessary (in most cases :)
I am just not so sure if we should rely on something that is not
strictly required.

Regards,

Olaf