On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 04:20:52 PM Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Franz Fellner <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Adam Carter wrote: > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Franz Fellner <[email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > "Look at" usually means "Read the file" - look at the content ;) > > > > > > Lets pretend for one minute that i'm a dumbass. In what way would I read > > > > a > > > > > binary executable, and how is that relevant to plugin-container? > > > > Just have a look and don't pretend it's a binary file ;) > > > > $ cat /usr/bin/firefox-bin > > #!/bin/sh > > unset LD_PRELOAD > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/firefox/" > > GTK_PATH=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/ > > exec /opt/firefox/firefox "$@" > > There's no firefox-bin in /usr/bin on my system, there's just > # ls -l /usr/bin/firefox* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 9 19:13 /usr/bin/firefox -> > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox > > And in that directory, again no shell script; > # file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version > 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for > GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped > > System is ~amd64 for firefox/thunderbird
I'm also using ~amd64 firefox (37.0.2) and mine is also a binary. Anyways, what this means is that the library is not loaded by the loader but by firefox at runtime so it's nothing to worry about. I guess some versions or build use a script to preload the library.
