On 05/11/2013 10:38 PM, John Reiser wrote:
Some are; libc.so.6 is an important case which demonstrates one use. Generally, a shared library is just an ET_DYN file, and so can have a non-zero ElfXX_Ehdr.e_entry. It is up to the author/maintainer to decide that to do with the facility that ELF provides. Most of the shared libraries in /lib{,64} *do* have a non-zero .e_entry. (" readelf -h *.so | grep 'Entry point' ")
It seems all PIE executables are actually ET_DYN objects with an entry point.
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