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Date:      Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:00:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ldconfig and libraries
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990208120006.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <36BF40C6.A2CA621D@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> So make the field ALWAYS PATH_MAX (+1 ??) characters in length, and 
> stick a zero-terminated string within that buffer.  Changing the length 
> of the string won't change the length of the field, and therefore won't 
> require fixing up addresses in the data (or any other) segment.

And add 1K to the size of every executable and shared library file in
the system?  Both on disk and in memory at execution time?  That's too
much of a hack for my tastes.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
                                                            -- H. L. Mencken

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