Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Monday, October 30, 2000 at 16:49:20 (-0500), Todd Vierling wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: ld.elf_so.core 
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> >: > > i went and executed /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so and it core
> >: > > dump on me. is that normal? here is the gdb output:
> >: > 
> >: > ld.elf_so is the run-time linker - you shouldn't be starting it by
> >: > hand...  I think this is a case of "don't do that".
> >: 
> >: Nothing should ever core dump -- regardless of how it's invoked!
> > 
> > Try running /boot sometime.
> 
> /boot should not have any executable flag set in its permissions. 

I've just checked alpha, pmax, i386 and sparc, and /*boot* is not
executable on any of these...

Simon.
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