Well, it's been a total failure

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Sep 14 15:05:22 PDT 2010


retard wrote:
> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:14:42 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> retard wrote:
>>> The difference is, on *nix the disabled executable flag prevents *all
>>> users* from launching the application. The attributes have a standard
>>> meaning.
>> No, the meanings are not standard between Windows and Linux. There's no
>> way to make them standard, either. The file systems are *different*.
> 
> Across *nixen. I couldn't care less about Windows.

Dmd supports Windows, therefore it must care about it.


> A power user version of the zipper would support both sets of attributes 
> and would also provide an interface for modifyin them.

Except that I could not find such a utility - for Windows or Unix.


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