Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> In message <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.91.960430023708.2774A-100000@brando.ece.utexas.edu>, Guy Maor writes:
> >This has nothing to do with this bug.  But I've always wondered why
> >some shared libs have the x bit on?  And some don't?
> 
> Maintainer preference, I guess. I generally do them as 644, just
> because that seems to me to represent what the files are actually
> capable of (they're not executable from the command line, at least).

I prefer them as 755 (or 775) since that's how the linker generates
them and they are executable in a sense.  I believe a.out shared
libraries used to need the execute bit to be set.

David
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