>> This is true. AFAIK, the Debian policy is because those shared libraries >> crash when some idiot tries to run them as programs. > > Why does that matter? Some Debian maintainer(s) got tired of getting bug reports for this case. > They [the users] run them notice the crash and learn from it. It was [is] a resource drain on the project as a whole when the unknowledgeable user does not think enough before filing a bug report. Having the shell give a [localized!] message for ENOEXEC is even instructive. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel