From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 14 09:38:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA22425 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA22417 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:38:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19079 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 12:37:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA24096; Tue, 14 May 1996 12:37:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 12:37:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD current Subject: dlopen Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After going round and round with dlopen, I made a small change to the man page, so that others don't get stuck where I was. If someone else agrees, maybe they'd commit it: --- dlopen.3.orig Tue May 14 12:09:13 1996 +++ dlopen.3 Tue May 14 12:15:51 1996 @@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ .B dlsym(\|) and .BR dlclose(\|) . +Object files that +.B dlopen(\|) +opens must have been loaded as shareable; merely compiling +them as position independent code will not cause +correct file alignment. If .I path was not in the address space prior to the call to ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.