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?

Bruce.



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