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Re: ld.so version map
drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) writes:
> Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:
>
> > It is not correct (even for Linux), unless you want to break all code
> > that overrides for example `__open' to do automatic decompression of
> > dlopen'ed modules.
>
> How should this work with mmap?
>
Simple -- you override mmap. If it's trying to map a compressed file,
you uncompress the beast, and reopen the same file descriptor with the
uncompressed copy.
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