On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:59 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 03/24/2011 03:28 AM, Ville Skyttà 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." Well, yes - that's the whole point of this thread: they're executable on Fedora systems, not on Debian systems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel