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From: Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: static linking and dlopen
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 23:25:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121208232529.79bab53a.idunham@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121209063658.GA2925@openwall.com>

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 10:36:58 +0400
croco@openwall.com wrote:

> Anyway, for a lot of existing programs, the absense of dlopen will mean a
> necessity for heavy rewritings in order to compile them with musl - perhaps
> too heavy to be done at all.
> 
I think there's a misunderstanding here:

musl includes a dlopen function.
When a binary is statically linked, it is a stub.
When a binary is dynamically linked, it loads the shared library requested.

> P.S. thank you for the great work you do!
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Croco

-- 
Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-09  7:25 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
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 [this message]
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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