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From: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
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In-reply-to: <9501261704.AA24636@cs.weber.edu> (message from Terry Lambert on Thu, 26 Jan 95 10:04:16 MST)
Subject: Re: dlopen for FreeBSD?
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

    >> Has anyone done/work on/given up on a dlopen/dlsym/dlclose interface
    >> for FreeBSD?

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

Anyone got a prototype implementation?

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

Not really.  I would guess that would make the whole task more complex
and slower.