RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 18:21:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> 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.

It is useful when RTLD_GLOBAL is needed for plugins to work
correctly and you can't recompile applications to pass
RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen.

-- 
H.J.



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