Bug 1713832
| Summary: | file reports some executables as shared objects | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Eugene Kanter <ekanter> |
| Component: | file | Assignee: | Kamil Dudka <kdudka> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 30 | CC: | jkaluza, kdudka, macermak, odubaj, svashisht |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Last Closed: | 2019-07-23 13:15:51 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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This is a known issue: shared libraries and dynamically-linked executables are difficult to distinguish from each other based on ELF header. See also:
bug #1570246
bug #1581343
bug #1296868
According to the output of `readelf -h`, the mentioned files are shared objects. This is not a bug per se. |
Description of problem: file command is unable to recognize some /usr/bin/ binaries as executables - reports "shared object". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): file-5.36-2.fc30.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: $ find /usr/bin -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep 'LSB shared object' | awk -F: '{print $1}' Actual results: /usr/bin/smbcontrol /usr/bin/smbtree /usr/bin/rpcclient /usr/bin/sharesec /usr/bin/smbclient /usr/bin/testparm /usr/bin/smbcacls /usr/bin/samba-regedit /usr/bin/dbwrap_tool /usr/bin/profiles /usr/bin/smbget /usr/bin/pdbedit /usr/bin/regdiff /usr/bin/nmblookup /usr/bin/regpatch /usr/bin/regshell /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver /usr/bin/cifsdd /usr/bin/smbcquotas /usr/bin/smbpasswd /usr/bin/oLschema2ldif /usr/bin/smbstatus /usr/bin/regtree /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/bin/dumpmscat /usr/bin/net /usr/bin/mvxattr Expected results: no output Additional info: Same problem observed many releases ago, for example RHEL6, RHEL7, F28, F29 also affected. For example F28/RHEL8: $ file /usr/bin/zipsplit /usr/bin/zipsplit: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ... $ file /usr/bin/file /usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, ....