<quote who="Mike Lake">
> Now I'm not to silly as to do that
No, and I do hope that everyone realised I was joking - "please do not do
this at home, kids", etc. I should have made that more obvious in my email
too.
> but I would like to understand why one can run binaries linked against
> this library when their executable permissions are removed.
You can also run them if you mount the filesystem they are one with
'noexec'. Nothing, it seems, is perfect. :)
> I gather that what is running it is the library rather than me?
I was going to explain, but I found that if you just run ld-linux.so.2, it
gives a pretty good starters explanation already.
- Jeff
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