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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Lazarus hackers now push Linux malware via fake job offers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So doesn't the user have to add +x to run this?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn't have to do on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Fun fact, Windows has the same permission it just defaults to enabled.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

No because the zip archive retains permissions of the contained files.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hm, maybe there should be an option to always disable the executable permission when extracting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's perhaps possible, but likely would have to be implemented in each achieving tools individually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Ah, right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Zip too? I thought only on Windows, while tar retains unix permissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

All archive formats do it, afaik.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But i'm sure there was an issue somewhile ago, because zip only preserves Windows permissions...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's a bunch of zip implementations(Info-Zip, Gzip, 7-Zip, PKZip, Pigz, etc.), so perhaps an older version of one of the implementations didn't support preserving the Linux executable permission in the past.