Re: Shared library permissions in Debian-land and Red Hat-land

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>> This is true. AFAIK, the Debian policy is because those shared libraries
>> crash when some idiot tries to run them as programs.
> 
> Why does that matter?

Some Debian maintainer(s) got tired of getting bug reports for this case.

> They [the users] run them notice the crash and learn from it. 

It was [is] a resource drain on the project as a whole when the unknowledgeable
user does not think enough before filing a bug report.  Having the shell
give a [localized!] message for ENOEXEC is even instructive.

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