On 03/24/2011 06:52 AM, John Reiser wrote: >> they say on Debian and Ubuntu, >> all shared libs have 0644 permissions. > > What they say is incorrect. > > I have Ubuntu 10.10 i686: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1421892 2011-01-21 15:08 /lib/libc-2.12.1.so [...snip more libc examples...] libc is probably a special case because it actually does useful things when executed. The vast majority of shared libs are not executable on a Debian 6.0 box I just had a look at. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel