From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 9 14:23:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16060 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16049 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:23:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA26057; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA49368; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902092216.PAA07798@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:23:17 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message