Shawn Walker wrote:
The question then is whether or not there is any continued point in
setting the executable bit? I mean, why bother setting it if it's
unnecessary? On the chance that some ancient ye olde customer software
will break?
Not that it really matters, just curious :)
I trawled
Peter Memishian wrote:
> I've always wondered...why are shared libraries installed under *NIX
> operating systems with the executable bit set? They seem to work
> regardless of whether the bit is set or not. I'm sure there's
> something I'm missing, but after a few hours of searching I can't
On 7/26/05, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > The question then is whether or not there is any continued point in
> > setting the executable bit? I mean, why bother setting it if it's
> > unnecessary? On the chance that some ancient ye olde customer software
> > will
For those that couldn't see Rod's great explanation (I'm guessing his
CC to the list bounced):
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jul 24, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-code] Library Question
To: Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROT
On 25 Jul 2005, at 01:04, Peter Memishian wrote:
an excellent question -- and to add insult to injury, attempting to
execute them is far from pretty:
$ /lib/libc.so
usage: ld.so.1 [-e option,...] dynamic-object [object args,...]
Killed
$ /lib/libnsl.so
Illegal Instruction (core dumped)
On 7/24/05, Rod Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> > > I've always wondered...why are shared libraries installed under *NIX
> > > operating systems with the executable bit set? They seem to work
> > > regardless of whether the bit is set or not. I'm sure there's
> > > s
> I've always wondered...why are shared libraries installed under *NIX
> operating systems with the executable bit set? They seem to work
> regardless of whether the bit is set or not. I'm sure there's
> something I'm missing, but after a few hours of searching I can't seem
> to find why.
an
I've always wondered...why are shared libraries installed under *NIX
operating systems with the executable bit set? They seem to work
regardless of whether the bit is set or not. I'm sure there's
something I'm missing, but after a few hours of searching I can't seem
to find why.
Responses apprecia
