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

Terry Lambert tlambert2 at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 30 14:30:15 PDT 2003


Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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.

It's "available", not "in libc"  8-) 8-).  There's a seperate
"libdlopen".

-- Terry


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