ksh executing a file without read permission

[Stephen Vinoski]

In article <5516 at hplabsb.HP.COM> quan at hplabsb.HP.COM (Suu Quan) writes:
>Exactly what I want : have a file with permissions --x--x--x
>and have everyone execute it without being able to read it.

Page 237 of the KornShell book says:

  "Shell scripts are carried out as a separate invocation of ksh when:
   - The script has execute permission but does not have read permission."

However, I couldn't get it to work (I'm running ksh88b).


-steve

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