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

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 03/24/2011 12:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

>> FWIW, on my F14 all the .so libs in /lib are executable, and all but
>> three segfault (and trigger abrt) when executed. Besides the already
>> mentioned libc-2.13.so and ld-2.13.so, only libpthread-2.13.so
>> runs successfully to print a legal notice followed by 'Forced unwind
>> support included."
>
> Well, yes - that's the whole point of this thread: they're executable on
> Fedora systems, not on Debian systems.

Sorry I was being too tentative. I meant to point out that the 755 perms 
don't seem to do anything useful (except possibly for ld.so, which I 
still don't quite understand what it is), and have definite negative 
effects (abrt noise). Therefore, I was going to suggest that we change 
them to 644.