Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So, is it true that the convention is 0644 in Debian and 0755 in Red > Hat-land? If so, does anyone know why the difference, and if this needs > to stay different forever? Also, I presume neither of us is patching > several thousand shared library packages for this, so are the > permissions usually set by libtool or something similar, and that's > where the configuration is set? I don't know all that much about the conventions for this under Linux, but I'm familiar with other Unix-oid platforms where shared libraries *must* have execute permission or they flat out don't work. (HPUX is that way for sure, and I think most BSDen as well.) So it would not be surprising for upstreams to prefer to install 0755 everywhere for portability. I think Debian is on the wrong side here, if your informant is correct about their policy in the first place ... regards, tom lane -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
