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Re: Proposal: Deprecate static dlopen
On 22/12/2017 16:54, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 12/22/2017 05:05 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> See this thread for some background:
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>> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-12/msg00521.html
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>> The only useful application for dlopen is access to NSS functionality because static dlopen binaries are more tightly tied to a specific glibc version than dynamically linked binaries. If we provide NSS access through a helper program (e.g., a special mode of getent), then the need for dlopen goes away, and static linking even becomes more usable.
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> This works for me.
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> It's good to start setting expectations early.
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> Mixing static and dynamic linking has caused us nothing but problems.
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I agreed with this as well.