Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec
On Monday 09 May 2005 17:17, Martin Dickopp <martin@zero-based.org> wrote:
> In principle, there could be files which can be used as both a shared
> library and an internal binary. Where would you put such files?
Anything that's a shared object has to be in a directory that ldconfig knows
about. There's nothing preventing a shared object in /usr/lib from being
directly executed, there's a shared object in /lib that's regularly executed
directly.
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