On 03/24/2011 03:28 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote: > 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. FWIW, on my F14 all the .so libs in /lib are executable, and all but three segfault (and trigger abrt) when executed. Besides the already mentioned libc-2.13.so and ld-2.13.so, only libpthread-2.13.so runs successfully to print a legal notice followed by 'Forced unwind support included." -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel