* Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> [2004-08-11 09:31]:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:01:01PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote:
>> With woody/libc6_2.2.5, libc.so.6 was executable; at testing/libc6_2.3.2
>> it is only readable. I note that executing the library directly provides
>> useful version info, and this feature is used e.g. by the MATLAB software
>> package.
Yes, also was wondering about this...
>> Could the library be made read/executable again?
>
> Try it - it crashes. No one's had time to fix this yet.
It doesn't crash for me (on a clean Sarge system). Is this one of the
"works for me[tm]" kind of things, or has this problem been resolved?
If the latter it would be really nice if it could be made executable
directly again, not with the need to wrap it through /lib/ld-linux.so.2.
So long,
Alfie
--
You can't make a foolproof thing - there is always a better fool who
will proof *you* are the fool while trying it.
-- me, 2001-04-05
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