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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
cc: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams),
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com>, current@freefall.cdrom.com,
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Subject: Re: Argh! Another side-effect of Nate's changes? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 95 11:40:51 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 14:30:19 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I think the problem is simply that static programs don't have the
> _DYNAMIC information necessary to do dynamic linking.  Arguably, you
> don't want them to.

Arguably, perhaps (and this is what I figured the case probably was).
But it still remains the case that dlopen() and friends then remain
caller-specific.  You can't use them if the caller is static, only
dynamic.  At the very least this should be *documented* since the
naturally tendency of the reader is then going to be to assume that
dlopen() is just another call like "strcpy" or something - something
that ANY program can call, be it static or dynamic.

					Jordan