On Jun 27, David Frey wrote > > The only reason I remember is that the shared libraries are > > "executed", only not from the commandline, but within other binaries. > > This might be, but the linker doesn't care. > (In Debian 1.1 we had the shared libraries 644, IIRC). Stuff that you can't do a fork/exec on shouldn't be +x, IMNSHO. It's just confusing otherwise. If someone really cares about shared libraries being +x, speak now. Otherwise, I suggest we revert them to 644. Is the policy editor reading this? Christian
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