On 10.05.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote: > why have .so files of fedora-packages executeable permissions? > they are not executeable, see below the difference of my personal > builds with files from fedora packages (the original httpd and > php packages have also 755) > > you get even segfaults by try to execute such files > [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_fcgid.so > Speicherzugriffsfehler > > [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ ls /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/ > insgesamt 6,5M > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4,9M 2013-05-09 12:13 libphp5.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_actions.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_asis.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20K 2013-04-10 10:47 mod_authz_svn.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24K 2013-03-19 21:46 mod_bw.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_cgi.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_dav.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 172K 2013-04-10 10:48 mod_dav_svn.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16K 2013-04-10 10:47 mod_dontdothat.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100K 2012-07-21 02:20 mod_fcgid.so > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12K 2013-03-19 21:54 mod_flvx.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79K 2013-04-20 00:42 mod_h264_streaming.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_info.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_mime_magic.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_proxy_http.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_proxy.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 575K 2013-05-06 15:56 mod_security2.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 223K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_ssl.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22K 2013-05-10 16:06 mod_status.so I've found this two links with some explanation: * http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/40587/why-are-shared-libraries-executable * http://serverfault.com/questions/173853/why-shared-libraries-on-linux-are-executable I can confirm that in Debian shared libs are not marked as executable (most of them). Maybe Fedora/RHEL make use of some form of protection which requires executable bit to be set on .so? Mateusz Marzantowicz -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel