"Bruce A. Mah" wrote:
>
> If memory serves me right, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > So, from a pure
> > ELF layout point of view, both shared objects and executables are the
> > same. But a shared library is not guaranteed to be executable. Allowing
> > shared objects to be executed is in violation with the specs:
>
> This may be a really stupid question, but what on Earth do they gain by
> allowing the execution of shared object files?
The only gain I see, if you can call it a gain, is that you can get
non-trivial information out of a shared object from within scripts, but
I don't know if this has been the reason. If you don't allow execution
of shared objects, you have to use dlopen(3) and call some functions or
query some variables.
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