On Jun 25, David Frey wrote > -------- > On Sun, Jun 1 1997 21:24 +0200 Christian Schwarz writes: > > 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. > > What was the answer, why shared libraries are mode 755? > I'd suggest to revert them back to 644: > > (david@eos) ~$/lib/libreadline.so.2.1 > Segmentation fault > > (I'd expected a better error message like `no binary' or something > like that). Indeed! 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. Christian
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