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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:33:58 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        nectar@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything
Message-ID:  <E1AMm8M-0003P7-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20031119141059.GA14308@madman.celabo.org>
References:  <200311182307.hAIN7Wpm000717@dyson.jdyson.com> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home> <20031118164905.R35009@pooker.samsco.home>

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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>Finally, if we could call `dlopen' from statically-linked binaries,
>this wouldn't be an issue.

One of the performance problems that John Dyson mentioned (the sparse
dirtying of libc's data section) would still remain, because the whole
of libc has to be linked into programs that use NSS.

Tony.
-- 
f.a.n.finch  <dot@dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
THE WASH TO NORTH FORELAND: SOUTHWEST 4 OR 5, PERHAPS 6 FOR A TIME IN EVENING
IN THAMES, VEERS NORTH TO NORTHEAST 2 OR 3 FROM NORTH, BACKS NORTHWEST LATER.
OCCASIONAL RAIN, CLEARS ERRATICALLY FROM NORTH, EXCEPT FAR SOUTH. MODERATE OR
GOOD, LOCALLY POOR IN SOUTH. SLIGHT , LOCALLY MODERATE IN SOUTH.



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