On Oct 31, 6:49 am, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > OTOH this doesn't happen in Linux because a) programs wanting the > system's crypt library are looking for libcrypt.so and b) Linux doesn't > look in your current directory (by default) for libraries.
One other thing is that linux binaries are usually linked against a versioned .so file, so a random command would refernce "libc.so.6" rather than "libc.so". I don't think that's necessarily the case for all Unix-like OSes, though. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
