Interesting fact: while not all shared object files are executable (or rather: do something interesting other than dump core), some most definitely are: try exe

Interesting fact: while not all shared object files are executable (or rather: do something interesting other than dump core), some most definitely are: try executing libc someday: $ /usr/lib/libc.so.6 See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449987/building-a-so-that-is-also-an-executable http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1449987/building-a-so-tha... for more information.