Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 04:17:18PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > That is ld.so(8) on my system.
> > 
> > Ditto.  Actually, since we basically only use ELF nowadays, that
> > should probably be replaced by "ld-linux.so(8)".
> 
> I don't know what ld-linux.so is. Please don't use it.
> 
> Marcus
> Debian GNU/Hurd developer

Oh, that's interesting.  On a GNU/Linux system:

$ ldd /bin/sh
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40018000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40056000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4005a000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

So it's not actually linked to /lib/ld.so, but rather to
/lib/ld-linux.so.  ld.so is used for a.out binaries and ld-linux.so
for ELF binaries.  I presume there is no equivalent distinction on
Hurd?

   Julian

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