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Date:      Sun, 25 May 1997 22:14:15 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au>
Cc:        Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-release@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release boot_crunch.conf 
Message-ID:  <15821.864623655@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 May 1997 11:29:21 %2B0800." <199705260329.LAA00670@spinner.dialix.com.au> 

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> For dlopen/dlclose/etc to work, it requires that the calling executable is
> dynamically linked, linked with libc.so.xx and that /usr/libexec/ld.so is
> present.  A dynamic libc is important since if libalias makes any libc 
> calls (memcpy, strcmp, etc) then the symbols have to be dynamically 
> resolveable.  For sysinstall on the boot floppy, this is probably a 
> showstopper.  However, at runtime on an installed system, there's probably 
> not much stopping /usr/bin/ppp from doing this.

Erm, I thought you actually had a clever way around the static
dlopen() problem, Peter. :-)

						Jordan



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