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Date:      Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:20:19 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Retiring static libpam support
Message-ID:  <42A75303.2090203@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <86ll5ksk44.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <864qc9mgqc.fsf@xps.des.no> <42A73773.1040508@elischer.org> <86ll5ksk44.fsf@xps.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
>  
>
>>I gues it would be ok if the basic binary is static and the PAM
>>modules are loaded using dlopen.
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>
>You can't load dynamic objects from a static binary.  It doesn't have
>a working dlopen() (since dlopen() is implemented by the run-time
>loader), and even if it did, there is no relocation table there to
>resolve dependencies in the dynamic object.
>  
>

so basically that would screw us.

>DES
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>



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