> > > 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. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .