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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> > What are the major reasons for not editing the executable in your
> > opinion?
>
> Besides it not working?  It is not possible for rtld-elf to access
> the section header, let alone additional section data in a clean manner.
> Furthermore, rtld-elf is not provided with a valid file handle for the
> main executable so hacks to access section data of libraries won't
> actually work for the main executable.
>
> I ran around in circles until I'd figured all this out.
>

but you could do this in the linker instead of rtld-elf, no?

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