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In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970818182539.4166A-100000@shell.firehouse.net>,
Brian Mitchell  <brian@firehouse.net> wrote:

> If you dlsym() a nonexistant symbol, freebsd (in 2.2.1 atleast)
> returns a NULL pointer but does not (as it should) set the dlerror()
> errorcode.

Yes, that's a bug that I just discovered and fixed in a commit to
-current on August 2nd.  I merged it into the -2.2 branch on August
8th.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
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