Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:25:20 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken? Message-ID: <199809020125.SAA16732@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809011733280.353-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809011733280.353-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.00.9809011733280.353-100000@picnic.mat.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> wrote: > Another tought occurred, tho: Will those functions finally be > available for statically linked elf images? No. Never. I wish you folks would get that idea out of your heads, because it ain't gonna happen. It is not feasible, for reasons having to do with the fact that some variables would end up existing in two places, one in the original static executable and another in whatever object you just dlopened. There are good reasons why these functions have never been supported (by any vendor) in static executables. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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