Re: binary incompatible change in libnss_*.so.2

[Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>]

Thorsten Kukuk writes:

> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/pam/pam_unix2/pam_unix2-1.8.tar.bz2
> 
> compile, install as /lib/security/pam_unix2.so and 
> /lib/security/pam_unix.so and it should work (I hope, not tested with
> a current glibc from head).

Thank you. Should work, yes.

But I fail to see why dlopen'ing the libnss_files.so.2 library and
getting the address of a symbol with version GLIBC_PRIVATE via dlsym()
is "allowed", while linking with the library directly is not "allowed".

Bruno