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>
> It's not a matter of our emulator. The problem is that Linux allows the
> execution of shared objects. Technically speaking this is wrong and our
> ELF loader doesn't do that. We can change our ELF loader, but that would

Could you elaborate on this, please. I am interested in what is meant with
execution of shared objects (as opposed to programs). Why is this wrong?

Thanks,

Jan



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