[Mageia-dev] executable libraries

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 22:36:08 CET 2012


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 21:22, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> I noticed that on my system, some libraries are marked executable and others
> aren't.
>
> I know that certain libraries are executable, like libc, but i figure that this
> is rather the exception rather than the rule.

Yes but I think all c/c++ libs are generated with execution permission

> I wonder if we should have some kind of policy about this?

I don't think so

> I can be wrong, but i didn't think it's necessary to make libraries as
> executable?

For most of them it is not useful

> I don't want any bikeshedding, but what do you think? is such a policy useful?
> or not?

I would say it doesn't matter and would not spend any time on it


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