Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:16:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <199902092216.PAA07798@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990208120006.jdp@polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Feb 8, 99 12:00:06 pm
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> > So make the field ALWAYS PATH_MAX (+1 ??) characters in length, and > > stick a zero-terminated string within that buffer. Changing the length > > of the string won't change the length of the field, and therefore won't > > require fixing up addresses in the data (or any other) segment. > > And add 1K to the size of every executable and shared library file in > the system? Both on disk and in memory at execution time? That's too > much of a hack for my tastes. OK, next question: Why can't it be at the end of the data? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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