dlsym() on implicit loaded symbols

[Roland Dittel]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Roland Dittel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have a issue with dlsym() on symbols imported by a library that was 
>> loaded with dlopen(). Our code loads the libssl with dlopen() and then 
>> do a dlsym() on several symbols. This works for all symbols exported 
>> by libssl itself but fails for symbols exported by libcrypto. Libssl 
>> is dynamically linked to libcrypto and should be loaded for libssl. I 
>> did a truss and the FreeBSD loader loads libcrypto but does not read 
>> anything from the file pointer.
> 
> could you post a sample code fragment which illustrates the problem you 
> are seeing?

Sure, attached is a simple example that tries to load the symbol 
CRYPTO_set_id_callback from a libssl handle. The symbol is located in 
libcrypto and NOT in libssl. Because libssl is dynamically linked to 
libcrypto I would expect the loader is able to find the symbol, but 
that's not the case on freebsd.

> 
> cheers
>  simon
>