On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote:
> Glad you liked the idea! :-)
Well imagine if Joe user gets a Linux binary or a.out binary to run.
Bam, it doesn't run, and one'd have to check each file, and unset the
variables. Or forgo any user-feedback. :(
> Well, there is a different reason for each of the dynamic linkers.
>
> FreeBSD ELF: It's required by the ELF specification.
>
> FreeBSD a.out: Backward compatibility.
>
> Linux ELF: Because it's part of Linux and that's just what it does.
I can understand the logic for using said variables for FreeBSD ELF stuff,
but for the rest of them, I figure we're not actually the native
environment. Hmm.
Anywho the topic of caching shlib symbols came up in discussion as a
possible way speed up loading of programs. Makes me wonder if it would be
worth it..
- alex
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