Bug report on yate-core: accfile.yate crashes with exit status 139

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:21:33 +0300,
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:26:54AM +0300, Paul Chitescu wrote:
> > On Linux the Yate modules are ELF shared objects and they are marked 
> > executable by the linker. However, they are placed away from $PATH in a 
> > separate subdirectory so noone should try to execute them directly.
> > 
> > Note that there are platforms where security rules dictate a shared object is 
> > not loaded if it's not marked executable so please leave them untouched.
> 
> What platforms? How do other programs with loadable modules deal with
> it?

There is apparently a policy difference between Red Hat and Debian, a
quick search returned this thread:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-March/149822.html

My guess is that the debian tools that normally take care of making
sure the shared objects have proper permissions don't work because
yate modules have a .yate extension instead of .so.