On Aug 15 00:39, Charles Wilson wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> > Why would DLLs need execute? >> because otherwise windows will refuse to load them, and the application > you just launched which needs that DLL will fail with an ugly message > about "Failed to initialize: 0xc0000005". 0xc0000022, STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple