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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:24:28 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Subject:   Re: Question about rtld-elf. Anyone?.. Anyone?
Message-ID:  <3EB03F0C.A884B141@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030430155126.377792A8A8@canning.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> >   This is actually used for the *kernel* to map the
> > ld.so into the process address space on the processes behalf; it's
> > why there's a dlopen() available in static binaries on SVR4.
> 
> Not on the SVR4 (pre-solaris) that I used.  The linker didn't generate
> the data in static binaries that ld.so needed at runtime.

It's "available", not "in libc"  8-) 8-).  There's a seperate
"libdlopen".

-- Terry



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