Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:14:19 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: peter@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Static binaries and dlopen(3) with a new crypt(3) lib. Message-ID: <199701200614.IAA15443@grackle.grondar.za>
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John Polstra wrote: > It's hard to support dlopen() under static linking, because the > dynamic linker isn't even present in the address space. It's not > impossible, just nontrivial. I've been meaning to look into it > for a while. Maybe this will get me moving. I would be eternally grateful :-). > > One of the problems - libraries have this nice, automatic way of > > looking at version numbers (.so.N.M), whereas in dlopen(3), one > > must supply a name (hardcoded?). > > Since dlopen() takes a "mode" parameter, I could easily add a new > flag bit for it that would cause dlopen() to follow the usual > library search rules. I would be doubly eternally grateful :-). M -- Mark Murray PGP key fingerprint = 80 36 6E 40 83 D6 8A 36 This .sig is umop ap!sdn. BC 06 EA 0E 7A F2 CE CE
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