On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > why have .so files of fedora-packages executeable permissions? > they are not executeable, [...] Shared libs can be executed e.g. : $ /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.16, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2012 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 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8). Compiled on a Linux 3.8.9 system on 2013-04-30. 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>. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel