Balint Cristian wrote: > I have a question about exec-shield, i compiled with -fpic -pic passed to gcc an aplication (qmail for eg) > on FC1 and how can i know that really work the exec-shield stuff on the aplication ? I assume the -fpic and -pic above really mean -fpie and -pie. In that case, run this readelf -a PROGRAM | egrep -q 'Type:[[:space:]]*DYN' && readelf -a PROGRAM | egrep -q ' DEBUG[[:space:]]*$' && echo "is PIC" -- â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â