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Re: RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL

From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:21:47 -0800
Subject: Re: RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL
References: <20121116173446.GA20240@gmail.com><20121116175452.1FD1E2C0EC@topped-with-meat.com>

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> What's the rationale for this feature?  It seems pretty fishy to me.
> The injection of symbols into the global name space should be under the
> control of the caller of dlopen, not of the module.

It is useful when RTLD_GLOBAL is needed for plugins to work
correctly and you can't recompile applications to pass
RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen.

-- 
H.J.

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