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Rationale for giving .so files +x

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Fri Jun 15 06:17:00 GMT 2007 
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Thursday 14 June 2007, Serge van den Boom wrote:
>> What's the rationale for setting the executable bit on shared object files?
>
> shared object codes include executable code so in order to map them with 
> execute permissions, you need the +x bit

This is not needed under Linux, it works fine if you remove the +x.  The
dynamic linker in glibc takes care of it.

But there's one exception: You can really execute on Linux libc.so, try:
/lib/libc.so.6

Andreas
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