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Re: RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:54:52 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL
- References: <20121116173446.GA20240@gmail.com>
What's the rationale for this feature? It seems pretty fishy to me.
The injection of symbols into the global name space should be under the
control of the caller of dlopen, not of the module.