Alexander Strauss wrote:
> 
> you were right - some of the Solaris libraries didn't have the right
> permissions. I would have double-checked if the error messages would
> have suggested a problem with dynamic linking, but the "exec format
> error" pointed to a generic kernel problem and so brought me onto the
> wrong way.
> 

  This situation makes it quite difficult to use ldd to debug such problems.
Can the mechanism of ldd be adjusted to enable it to cope with this kind of
thing?

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