> "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.
>
Would it be possible to write a small wrapper to load the shared library
and execute some entryfunction to get it started? I suppose that's what
the elf-loader under linux does.
If so that would be a simple addition to the linux-lib port.
Marc.
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