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From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
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To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, markd@grizzly.com
Subject: Re: dlopen for FreeBSD?
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> Amazing, looks like all it needs is a .h file and a man page (well, and
> the dlerror function)!!!
> 

A quick-and-dirty dlerror() goes like this:

char *
dlerror()
{
	int	error;

	if (ld_entry == NULL ||
	    (*ld_entry->dlctl)(NULL, DL_GETERRNO, &error) == -1)
		return "Service unavailable";

	return (char *)strerror(error);
}

-pk