Question about rtld-elf. Anyone?.. Anyone?

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Wed Apr 30 08:51:26 PDT 2003


Terry Lambert wrote:
>   This is actually used for the *kernel* to map the
> ld.so into the process address space on the processes behalf; it's
> why there's a dlopen() available in static binaries on SVR4.

Not on the SVR4 (pre-solaris) that I used.  The linker didn't generate
the data in static binaries that ld.so needed at runtime.

Cheers,
-Peter
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