Re: Disturbing news..

From: Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 10:43:24 EST


Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:15:57AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > objcopy - copies object files. Object files are not marked executable...
>
> objcopy copies executable files as well - check the kernel makefiles
> for examples.

At the time it's copying, the input doesn't need to be executable. That
appears to be a byproduct of a library link.

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