From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>,
zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: Modules dependencies RE: PATCH: zftp/tcp abstraction
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:42:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010627184217.ZM6359@candle.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Tc0a88d015466d4d56c@mailsweeper01.cambridgesiliconradio.com>
On Jun 27, 2:59pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: Re: Modules dependencies RE: PATCH: zftp/tcp abstraction
}
} Clint Adams wrote:
} > What about just embedding the module dependencies in the module itself?
} > If it could be scanned without loading the module, it would be less
} > messy than maintaining "helper files".
}
} The other advantage of this is that, as Sven has pointed out, we can handle
} systems with RTLD_LAZY by loading first and asking questions afterwards.
In addition to Zefram's remarks in 14786, it is also the case that on
some operating systems (Apollo Domain/OS is a specific if obscure example)
all executables and libraries are compressed and checksummed. This makes
it (a) difficult[*] to read C strings out of the library without actually
loading it and (b) impossible to add any uncompressed data to the library
file and still load it as a library.
We can of course choose not to support dynamic modules on any such OS.
[*] I'm not aware of any API for reversing the compression on Domain/OS.
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-27 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-06 16:26 Clint Adams
2001-06-06 16:34 ` Module namespaces? " Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-06 16:37 ` Zefram
2001-06-06 18:07 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-06-06 19:12 ` Clint Adams
2001-06-07 8:13 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-07 9:41 ` Modules dependencies " Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-07 10:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-06-07 10:18 ` Zefram
2001-06-07 13:16 ` Sven Wischnowsky
2001-06-07 13:35 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-07 15:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-06-14 9:33 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-26 11:26 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-26 16:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-06-30 11:24 ` Zefram
2001-06-27 13:49 ` Clint Adams
2001-06-27 13:59 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-06-27 14:10 ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-06-27 14:19 ` Peter Stephenson
2001-06-27 18:42 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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