perl.exe is not marked read only

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I recently installed 5.12.2, and I was poking about and noticed perl.exe doesn't have the read only attribute

$ attrib C:\perl\5.12.2\lib\strict.pm
A    R     C:\perl\5.12.2\lib\strict.pm

$ attrib C:\perl\5.12.2\bin\perldoc.bat
A    R     C:\perl\5.12.2\bin\perldoc.bat

$ attrib C:\perl\5.12.2\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe
A          C:\perl\5.12.2\bin\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread\perl.exe
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All the other files are marked read only except those in perl -V:installbin

I poked about the source tree, but I couldn't find where these attributes are set. This makes it seem they're set by default but where?

perl\win32/Makefile:    attrib -r ..\t\*.*
perl\win32/makefile.mk: attrib -r ..\t\*.*
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Any idea why they aren't read only?

Thanks

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Re: perl.exe is not marked read only by tod222 (Pilgrim) on Oct 17, 2010 at 02:55 UTC
I think it might be helpful to know if it's the Strawberry or ActiveState version. Other than that, I can't say, as I'm not a Windows user.	[reply]
Re^2: perl.exe is not marked read only by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2010 at 06:59 UTC
Both strawberry and activestate, and hand built; they all use the same build code.	[reply]