AFAIK there's no shared, writable section in ELF. But of course you could still easily mmap() a file to achieve the same thing (even from the shared library .i

AFAIK there's no shared, writable section in ELF. But of course you could still easily mmap() a file to achieve the same thing (even from the shared library .init functions). I can understand that the shared section might be abused by goofy programmers ("Hey guys! We don't need to open a file for storage, we can just build it into the DDL!") ... but is there a reason you think it's a bad idea otherwise?