From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 08:51:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56C537B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50DF143F3F for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377792A8A8; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert In-Reply-To: <3EAF621C.E59B1AD5@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030430155126.377792A8A8@canning.wemm.org> cc: threads@freebsd.org cc: Daniel Eischen Subject: Re: Question about rtld-elf. Anyone?.. Anyone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:51:26 -0000 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. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5