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On Thursday 14 June 2007, Serge van den Boom wrote: > What's the rationale for setting the executable bit on shared object files? shared object codes include executable code so in order to map them with execute permissions, you need the +x bit > The rest of a POSIX system treats files with the executable bit set as > files that can be execve()'ed. With a few exceptions such as libc.so and > ld.so, this is not the case for shared object files (at least not without > an immediate SIGSEGV). that's a different issue -mike
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