Re: Library bindings or os.execute?

[Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez@...>]

Hello,

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 02:35:38 -0400, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

> [...]
>
>   -spc (Who thinks that executables should also be shared libraries ... )

This is doable at least when dealing with ELF objects. Of course the binary
has to _both_ provide a program entry point (likely as a weak symbol, so it
can be overriden when the ELF object is linked in as a shared library), and
also export dynamic symbols. You can try this today, by going ahead and
executing the glibc main binary:

  % /lib/libc-2.25.so
  ...

Of course, building such a binary can get tricky (symbol visibility, weak
symbols) and most likely it will be a portability nightmare. Still doable,
though!

Cheers,


--
 Adrián 🎩

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