On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 at 11:03:25AM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > The only reason I remember is that the shared libraries are > "executed", only not from the commandline, but within other binaries.
Yes, but the file mode suggests that they can be executed from the commandline (or by calling execve(2), more precisely). After all, only execve(2) cares about files having their executable bits set -- ldso/mmap works fine without. I don't think that "telling the user that the file may be part of an executable" is a good reason for using mode 755. If a user wants to know more about the purpose of a file, he can use file(1) and get a much better answer. Martin -- /* Martin Buck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /* Student of electrical engineering WWW: http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_mbuck1/ */ /* University of Ulm, Germany Snail-Mail: Paukengasse 2, 89077 Ulm, Germany */ #include <disclaimer.h> /* PGP Key available MIME-Mail welcome */ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
