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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
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> > > 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).

That sounds great, maybe I can trick someone into doing it so that we 
can have winbindd support for samba.  I don't know if this is the 
only obsticle, but I belive its the biggest one that's being faced.

-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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