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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: dlopen for FreeBSD?
To: markd@grizzly.com (Mark Diekhans)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 10:04:16 MST
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> Has anyone done/work on/given up on a dlopen/dlsym/dlclose interface for
> FreeBSD?

Yes and no.

This is a relatively trivial task, but there is some disagreement on
how it would be done.

Would you want to dlopen() non-PIC object files?


I'd like to hide the code in the kernel, then use it for modules.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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