Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:23:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <XFMail.990209142317.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199902092216.PAA07798@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> OK, next question: Why can't it be at the end of the data?
Because then it wouldn't be in a read-only segment at execution
time.
And it wouldn't help anyway, because it would still come before BSS,
causing BSS to move if the RPATHs size were changed. :-)
Anticipating another likely question:
Q. Why not make it read-write, then? What could it hurt?
A. It would violate the ELF spec.
John
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