Question about protection of raw partition and shared libraries

Path: emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!inftec.be!mike From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Feb27.000349.7400@inftec.be> Date: 27 Feb 92 00:03:49 GMT Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium. I became the sysadmin of a system with Informix ON-LINE 4.0. I was surprised to see that the protection of the raw partitions for Informix are crw-rw-rw-. They told me this was necesary to allow different users to access the database. - This means everybody can see what is in the database. - What happens when someone enter the command : echo "Hello World" >/dev/informix_partition? (I think I now the answer : bye-bye database, pray the Lord you have a recent backup ;-) ) My second surprise was when I saw the size of compiled 4GL code. These are +/- 300K. So I went looking for a shared library for Informix, but didn't find it. Can Informix use shared libraries? Please don't respond by RTFM, I'm still searching for them, but want to find solutions as quick as possible. Mike.-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-mail : mike@inftec.BE | I think that it's extraordinarly important tel : +32 2 460.46.11 | that we in computer science keep fun in Fax : +32 2 460.56.50 | computing. .... A.J. Perlis