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: Can shared libraries be executed ''without'' an extra 'trivial program' though? Python not only has that ability, but it is a documented and well used feature of the language. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 17:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
:: I believe that that is an OS issue. Hypothetically speaking: a shared library that defines a "main()" routine, can be treated as an executable. However if the OS requires something else (like: let's say there is a bit you set: when this bit is set you have an executable, when this bit is cleared you have a shared library), then you need a separate file (so that that bit can be set to different values for each of the two purposes). (With Python, the interpreter itself can serve to make this distinction -- in this case it is the "extra 'trivial program'" (or perhaps not-so-trivial program) that you need to make this work.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:24, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
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