Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 14:30:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> 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, pk@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Argh! Another side-effect of Nate's changes? Message-ID: <20307.797290219@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 95 11:40:51 EDT." <9504071540.AA28754@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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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
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