Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	*Re: [gentoo-user] Why are .so library files executable?**
Date:	Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:05:16
Message-Id:	`1307286485.827415.3.camel@localhost.localdomain`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Why are *.so library files executable? by Nikos Chantziaras

1	On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2	> Gentoo users tend to be technically adept, so I'll ask the question here:
3	>
4	> Why are *.so files set as executables? I noticed that they keep working
5	> if I do a "chmod a-x" on them.
6
7	Well, they are "executables" in that they are object code that are
8	(loaded and) executed.
9
10	In the olden days (pre libc6?) believe it was required form them to be
11	both executable and by whoever wanted to run (load) them. It's probably
12	still a requirement for other *nix systems.