From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 8 12:00:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22270 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:00:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22262 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA18723; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA44703; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36BF40C6.A2CA621D@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > So make the field ALWAYS PATH_MAX (+1 ??) characters in length, and > stick a zero-terminated string within that buffer. Changing the length > of the string won't change the length of the field, and therefore won't > require fixing up addresses in the data (or any other) segment. And add 1K to the size of every executable and shared library file in the system? Both on disk and in memory at execution time? That's too much of a hack for my tastes. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message