https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321590



--- Comment #3 from Mattias Ellert <[email protected]> ---
As you already pointed out, these are plugins.
Xrootd expects the plugins to be in the default library path and does not use a
separate subfolder for plugins.
However, xrootd has something similar to a soname for its plugins, namely the
plugin version.

In this case the -5 in the plugin names indicate these are plugins for xrootd
major version 5:

/usr/lib64/libXrdHTTPServer-5.so
/usr/lib64/libXrdS3-5.so

This plugin version serves the same purpose as the soname, in a way.
It is possible to install e.g. both an xrootd with major version 4 and major
version 5 in parallel and have both versions have their plugins in /usr/lib(64)
without filename conflicts.
The plugin interfaces are guaranteed not to change within the same major
version.


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