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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 1995 21:29:06 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
To:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
Cc:        nate@trout.sri.MT.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: proposed change to ld.so
Message-ID:  <199504190329.VAA01681@trout.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <9504190344.AA17006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
References:  <199504182325.RAA01140@trout.sri.MT.net> <9504190344.AA17006@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>

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Jean-Marc Zucconi writes:
> >>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> writes:
>  >> Current ld.so can't load a shared library that depends on other shared
>  >> libraries (cascades). The patch below, which is taken from
>  >> NetBSD-curren.....
> 
>  > I've got this patch (or something very similar) in my development
>  > sources at home.  However, there are much bigger problems with the ld
>  > code that I didn't want to make any additions to the code which might
>  > make the solution to the problems more complicated.
> 
> Hmmm, do you plan to make your changes *soon*? I really need this, and
> after all it is only a one line change in rtld.c (if (dl_cascade(smp)
>  == 0) return NULL;)

To be honest, I have no idea how long this will take.  I've been
spending my time trying to understand the code and have spent little
time with coding.  I doubt anything will happen in the next week or so.
What is causing the critical need for this?



Nate



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