Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:02:02 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: joek@mail.flyingcroc.net Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful Message-ID: <200302282102.h1SL22Sm031572@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5FC0DD.1080704@mail.flyingcroc.net> References: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> <20030228195747.GA27650@huckfinn.arved.de> <3E5FC0DD.1080704@mail.flyingcroc.net>
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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. Polstra -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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