-------- (People, please don't unnecessarily Cc:)
On Fri, Jun 27 1997 11:03 +0200 joost witteveen writes: > > > > Can someone tell me why shared libs should be installed executable? > > > > (Actually, Christoph Lameter wants to know this, cf. #7129, but since I > > > > don't know this either I'll redirect the question to this list.) > > > > > > > > This is current policy and I want to add a small note to the paragraph > > > > stating the reasons for this. > [..] > > And since we're basically recompiling all the libraries for 2.0, this would > > be a good time to make the change. If no one can provide a good reason for > > libraries being 755, I say we revert them to 644. > > The only reason I remember is that the shared libraries are > "executed", only not from the commandline, but within other binaries. This might be, but the linker doesn't care. (In Debian 1.1 we had the shared libraries 644, IIRC). David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
