On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:31:14AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. Don't forget also that shared libraries can be executable programs: $ /lib64/libc.so.6 GNU C Library development release version 2.13.90, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled by GNU CC version 4.6.0 20110301 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.11). Compiled on a Linux 2.6.38 system on 2011-03-07. Available extensions: Support for some architectures added on, not maintained in glibc core. The C stubs add-on version 2.1.2. crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al BIND-8.2.3-T5B RT using linux kernel aio libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
