requiring .desktop files to be executable ?

[R.F. Pels]

On Thu 19 February 2009 12.44.23 David Faure wrote:

> OK, with both conditions it doesn't break the case of a FAT partition
> (where everything is owned by root *and* writable by the user).
>
> So we arrive at the following whitelist:
>  * x-bit is set
>  * in a standard path (xdgdata-apps, apps, services)    (*)
>  * owned by root and not writable by user
>
> (*) I guess we should not add the Autostart folder to it, to protect
> the user from "save this file into your autostart folder", although,
> well, that would be a rather suspicious instruction in the first
> place...

hash-bang line? And what flashed through my brain was the idea of 
creating a binfmt module for the kernel. 

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