Shared libs

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  8, 2000, Pascal Bleser <pbleser@atos-group.com> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May  8, 2000, Vinu V Nair <vinu@sasi.com> wrote:
>> >  Is it necessary that all shared libraries be executables?
>> It depends on the platform.

> Is it necessary on Linux ?
> I don't think so...

I don't think it's necessary, but it's common practice.

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