Comment 6 for bug 1635376

Executables are now linked with the -pie option, which lead to a file type that is nearly indistinguishable from a shared library. I learned that this is an expected consequence.

The only difference is the presence of an 'interpreter' for executable files, but nothing forbids a .so to have an 'interpreter' too (for example the libc.so on my system has one):

$ file plop.so:
plop.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked

$ file plop.ex:
plop.ex: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32

In conclusion we should look into Nautilus to solve the issue (I closed the bug for gcc).