Re: Why does Apache do this braindamaged dlclose/dlopen stuff?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:43:09PM +0100, Gerald Richter wrote:
> >
> > You're confusing the dynamic and static linkers.  The dynamic linker is
> > what he was referring to; it knows what libraries it resolves symbols
> > to.
> >
> Yes, I know this difference and you will be right in most cases, but the
> address that is returned, could be passed around to other libraries and the
> linker can't know this. (the dynloader.so can retrieve an adresse of
> embperl.so and pass it's address to modperl.so, which then pass the address
> to whatever. How should the dynamic linker know, that whatever is calling
> the symbol in embperl.so (and stores the address)

Ah, I see what you mean.  That's boundedly undefined - the linker
certainly shouldn't be trying to catch that sort of case.  But it
should, IMO, catch bindings that it makes itself.

Dan

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