How much do you actually know about this? Have you read the ELF spec or written anything with libelf, hacked on a loader, a linker? Considered the actual problems with having this hard coded vs alternatives?

I ask because ELF and unix dynamic linking is a pretty well thought out set of specifications and processes and it's a huge body of work. It can certainly be criticized, but calling it an afterthought because of .interp doesn't seem very charitable.

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