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

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: IMPORTANT: Fix for bad permissions on 1.1 boot floppies"):
> > 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.

Should I add a sentence to the guidelines to recommend root.root 755
for shared libraries ?  (We already mandate permissions on most other
files.)

Ian.