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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes: > 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 This is not needed under Linux, it works fine if you remove the +x. The dynamic linker in glibc takes care of it. But there's one exception: You can really execute on Linux libc.so, try: /lib/libc.so.6 Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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