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> > There's no firefox-bin in /usr/bin on my system, there's just |
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> > # ls -l /usr/bin/firefox* |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 9 19:13 /usr/bin/firefox -> |
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> > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox |
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> > |
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> > And in that directory, again no shell script; |
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> > # file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin |
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> > /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, |
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> version |
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> > 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, |
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> for |
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> > GNU/Linux 2.6.32, stripped |
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> > |
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> > System is ~amd64 for firefox/thunderbird |
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> |
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> I'm also using ~amd64 firefox (37.0.2) and mine is also a binary. Anyways, |
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> what |
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> this means is that the library is not loaded by the loader but by firefox |
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> at |
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> runtime so it's nothing to worry about. I guess some versions or build use |
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> a |
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> script to preload the library. |
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> |
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How do you tell that the library is loaded by firefox? How would it know to |
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load libraries for other binaries? |
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