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  1. Bug #313439
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 313439

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Jan Minář (rdancer) wrote : Re: [Bug 313439] Re: Opening a Java Archive (.JAR) file executes it regardless of the "executable" permission bit

Upstream suggests some package has added this association, so it's not
the core MIME package that should be interested, but the particular
package that added the association (one of the Java core packages;
there are so many)?

Still, it would be a good idea to have a system-wide mechanism to
check for the executable permission bit, and depending on it either
run the read association, or the execute association.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 15:04, Jan Minář <email address hidden> wrote:
> Looks to me as this bug should be reassigned to the respective package
> that holds tose MIME associations? Which one would that be?
>
> The MIME association should test if file is executable, and only
> execute it then. May be a broader issue in the MIME associations
> file, not just regarding JARs?
>