From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 13 3:55:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7A337B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:55:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0005.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.5] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ay0f-0006KT-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:55:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6A5430.CB195422@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:55:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Blapp Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: Re: windbindd References: <20020213114010.T1170-100000@levais.imp.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Blapp wrote: > > Is there any way to impliment dl_open in our nsswitch for -current so > > that samba's winbindd can work on FreeBSD? > > no. It's actually not that hard to write a "libdlopen" that mmap's exectuable the ld.so itself, and then does manual lookup of the dl entry points, providing symbols for them which are actually externed functions wrapping dereferenced function pointers. It's just that no one has bothered to do the work, yet, for FreeBSD (other OSs have it). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message