Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:18:35 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful Message-ID: <3E5FD22B.3040904@mail.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <200302282102.h1SL22Sm031572@vashon.polstra.com> References: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> <20030228195747.GA27650@huckfinn.arved.de> <3E5FC0DD.1080704@mail.flyingcroc.net> <200302282102.h1SL22Sm031572@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > In article <3E5FC0DD.1080704@mail.flyingcroc.net>, > Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> wrote: > >>I prefer to think of it as a fundamental misdesign in rtld-elf. The >>basic problem is that rtld-elf is more than happy to load two different >>libraries wit virtually the same name at once, leading to massive >>errors. FreeBSD's rtld-elf is the *only* runtime loader that I have >>ever encountered which allows this broken behavior. Apparantly, Polstra >>believes that there exist a situation where loading two instances of a >>library or two versions of a library is *not* an error. If rtld-elf did >>not do this, it would catch or prevent most of these errors in the first >>place. > > > Dude: If Polstra has any thoughts he would like to share with you, > he'll express them himself. > > PS: Polstra isn't the rtld-elf maintainer. Sorry, the last time I had a conversation about rtld-elf, I remember it being with you. I apologize for my memory issues. I also apologize to the list for naming John incorrectly. /Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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