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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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>Finally, if we could call `dlopen' from statically-linked binaries,
>this wouldn't be an issue.

One of the performance problems that John Dyson mentioned (the sparse
dirtying of libc's data section) would still remain, because the whole
of libc has to be linked into programs that use NSS.

Tony.
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