> so that it can detect if mods depend on a newer version of it and notify the user that it needs to be updated.
The dynamic linker will literally tell you this, if you ask it.
> the metadata of the library existed as part of the metadata that the filesystem itself tracked rather than something in the contents of the file itself.
So does this metadata has anything to do with the file at all, or could I also attach it to e.g. an MP4 file? If that is the case than the difference is that the distributor for MS Windows did add the attribute and the distributor for GNU/Linux did not, it doesn't have anything to do with the platform.
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> (which library C only supports if running via Proton rather than any native Linux version of the game
So library C isn't even an ELF shared object, but a PE/COFF DLL? Then that complaint makes even less sense.
The dynamic linker will literally tell you this, if you ask it.
> the metadata of the library existed as part of the metadata that the filesystem itself tracked rather than something in the contents of the file itself.
So does this metadata has anything to do with the file at all, or could I also attach it to e.g. an MP4 file? If that is the case than the difference is that the distributor for MS Windows did add the attribute and the distributor for GNU/Linux did not, it doesn't have anything to do with the platform.
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> (which library C only supports if running via Proton rather than any native Linux version of the game
So library C isn't even an ELF shared object, but a PE/COFF DLL? Then that complaint makes even less sense.