From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 18 20:25:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA03788 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:25:15 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA03782 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 20:25:10 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id VAA01681; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:29:06 -0600 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:29:06 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199504190329.VAA01681@trout.sri.MT.net> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: proposed change to ld.so In-Reply-To: <9504190344.AA17006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> References: <199504182325.RAA01140@trout.sri.MT.net> <9504190344.AA17006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: > >>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams writes: > >> Current ld.so can't load a shared library that depends on other shared > >> libraries (cascades). The patch below, which is taken from > >> NetBSD-curren..... > > > I've got this patch (or something very similar) in my development > > sources at home. However, there are much bigger problems with the ld > > code that I didn't want to make any additions to the code which might > > make the solution to the problems more complicated. > > Hmmm, do you plan to make your changes *soon*? I really need this, and > after all it is only a one line change in rtld.c (if (dl_cascade(smp) > == 0) return NULL;) To be honest, I have no idea how long this will take. I've been spending my time trying to understand the code and have spent little time with coding. I doubt anything will happen in the next week or so. What is causing the critical need for this? Nate