On 5 June 2011 15:43, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > Why are *.so files set as executables? I noticed that they keep working if > I do a "chmod a-x" on them.
You can in fact make a library be an executable at the same time, see: /lib/libc.so.6 For those that care if can be accomplished by this method: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2003-07/msg00232.html. By rights shared libraries are a form of executable, the trick however is that they have multiple entry points (whereas binaries have one). I am not entirely sure the requirement for +x is needed anymore (it certainly was in the past). Thanks Mark
