>>> So for mime types to distinguish, "file" needs to grow reporting of
the INTERP presence.
Distinguish between shared libraries and PIC executables based on INTERP
ELF header is not always correct. Consider following 2 exceptions:
GLIBC main library libc-2.24.so
This shared object has an
>>> Yes, this is very much a bug. While ELF position independent
executables are ELF shared objects, they weren't being recognized as
executables by desktop launchers. So they wouldn't run.
So those launchers should accept shared objects
(application/x-sharedlib) as executables from now.
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And I don't think this is a bug because technically an ELF position
independent executable IS a ELF shared object, right?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747711
Title:
file
Looks like the upstream fix makes many dynamic libraries wrongly detected as
'pie executable's.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906727
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #906727
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906727
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