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From: Perry E. Metzger (perrywasabisystems.com)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 21:12:21 CDT

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    Thor Lancelot Simon <tlsrek.tjls.com> writes:
    > Fixing this would require not allowing executable mappings if the backing
    > vnode weren't executable. I think that this is actually unquestionably
    > correct, but because the original Sun implementation didn't require it,
    > we will get zillions of complaints from people who say that we "broke
    > shared libraries".

    So we tell people with giant large letters to chmod +x /usr/lib/lib*so.*
    and be done with it. Better than leaving this go forever.

    Perry

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