From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: static linking and dlopen
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:02:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355083355.9353.1@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121208204709.GD23126@port70.net> (from nsz@port70.net on Sat Dec 8 14:47:09 2012)
On 12/08/2012 02:47:09 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Paul Schutte <sjpschutte@gmail.com> [2012-12-08 20:09:35 +0200]:
> > When I link a binary statically and that binary then use dlopen,
> would that
> > work 100% ?
>
> not required to work
>
> and musl does not implement it (always returns 0)
>
> > What would open if the shared object that was dlopened want's to
> call
> > functions in other shared libraries ?
>
> see the first paragraph in the description of dlopen:
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dlopen.html
Please add this to the FAQ, or whatever "how shared libraries work"
documentation you wind up doing. There were also earlier discussions of
the horrors of dlclose that should be noted somewhere.
(Unless this is a "belling the cat" situation where suggesting it makes
it my responsibility, but I don't actually know this stuff...)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-09 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-08 18:09 Paul Schutte
2012-12-08 20:47 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-09 20:02 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2012-12-08 22:52 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-08 23:17 ` Charlie Kester
2012-12-08 23:23 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 0:04 ` Paul Schutte
2012-12-09 0:16 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 15:24 ` Paul Schutte
2012-12-09 17:54 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 19:07 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-09 19:24 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 2:39 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-09 6:36 ` croco
2012-12-09 7:25 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-12-09 8:10 ` Charlie Kester
2012-12-09 10:08 ` croco
2012-12-09 11:46 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-09 15:11 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 20:43 ` Rob Landley
2012-12-08 23:29 ` Paul Schutte
2012-12-09 2:55 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-12-09 3:10 ` Rich Felker
2012-12-09 7:30 ` Isaac Dunham
2012-12-09 20:09 ` Rob Landley
2012-12-09 21:53 ` Rich Felker
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