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On Friday 15 June 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > 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. the default setup vanilla setup is like this, but there are kernel patches out there for the security conscience which makes the +x actually respected > But there's one exception: You can really execute on Linux libc.so, try: > /lib/libc.so.6 that's cause that lib cheats ;) -mike
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