Shell files in `/bin` can be made executable

Kevin Rushforth kevin.rushforth at oracle.com
Tue Nov 23 15:08:01 UTC 2021


No, executable files are explicitly prohibited in the jdk repo. This is 
enforced by jcheck [3].

-- Kevin

[3] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/.jcheck/conf#L6


On 11/23/2021 6:59 AM, Japris Pogrammer wrote:
> Currently [1] shell scripts in /bin directory seem to be missing x
> modifier. I guess that it should be added to them in order to improve their
> usage experience a bit.
> Is this assumption right?
> If yes, then I am ready to propose a simple fix for this [2].
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/f4dc03ea6de327425ff265c3d2ec16ea7b0e1634/bin/
> [2]: https://github.com/JarvisCraft/jdk/tree/bin-make-shell-files-executable



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