This is not a documented behavior but glibc's dlopen behaves this way.

Spotted when debugging assertion failure when java is started with a
debugger, we try to read elf header from "/" on dlopen("", ...):

Assertion failed: data.uio_resid == 0 (osv/fs/fs.cc: read: 27)

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Grabiec <tgrabiec@cloudius-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cloudius-systems.com>