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On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 05:49:29PM +0200, Clément Vasseur wrote:
> when the dynamic loader is disabled, dlopen fails correctly but dlerror
> did not return a human readable error string like it should have.

Committed. I also followed up with a related change for dlsym (which
could legitimately be used, even if dlopen never succeeds, to search
for symbols in the global namespace or RTLD_NEXT).

Rich