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Subject: Re: why doesnt the include file install set the file permisions to unwritable?
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:06:05 -0600
Hi Lewis,

On Thursday 19 November 2009 11:11:04 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
>
> To me it doesn't seem so obvious that libraries should use
> BIN_PERMISSIONS.  Why should a library be executable?  I understand that
> some platforms require libraries to be executable, but in a way, it's a
> little strange.

True.  Jim Thomas also pointed out that .a (and Windows .LIB) files are not 
normally executable even if .so (Windows .DLL) files often are, but we install 
both into the same lib directory.

We'll set both LIB_PERMISSIONS and INSTALL_PERMISSIONS to 444 for future 
releases.

- Andrew
-- 
The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans -- Harald Welte


References:
why doesnt the include file install set the file permisions to unwritable? Jeff Hill
Re: why doesnt the include file install set the file permisions to unwritable? Andrew Johnson

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