Re: Modules dependencies RE: PATCH: zftp/tcp abstraction

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

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.
The difference between these two methods is then transparent to the user
--- we don't have extra files on some systems and not on others.

At least, I hope we can handle RTLD_LAZY like that... only function objects
can be lazy, data objects can't be, at least under Solaris.  There may be
cases where we have data dependencies and this won't work.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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