ELF file type - ET_EXEC and ET_DYN [duplicate]

Question

Alright, as far as I know ET_EXEC is used to indicate that the file is an executable whereas ET_DYN indicates that the file is a shared library. So to be sure I wrote a simple program in C, the problem however is that readelf -h is yielding the following:

ELF Header:
Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
Class:                             ELF64
Data:                              2's complement, little endian
Version:                           1 (current)
OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
ABI Version:                       0
Type:                              DYN (Shared object file)
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I thought this had something to do with the compiler I used so I did the same with some utilities in /bin but unfortunately got the same results. So here's the question: Why is readelf identifying executables as shared libraries?

Answer 1

Why is readelf identifying executables as shared libraries?

Because it is (a special kind of) shared library. See also this answer.