Ahh, clever. That's likely to work for systems which use the dlopen() dynamic loading interface. I don't know if it will also work on HP-UX, AIX, and Mac, though there's likely some equivalent trick. (Similarly, non-Unix systems such as Win32, VMS, and OS/2 will need some platform-specific trick, though I realize the original query was limited to Unix systems.)
-- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As a brief aside, under win32 the dlopen trick could be emulated by GetProcAddress, LoadLibrary and GetModuleHandle.
Hope this helps. Matt Seddon.
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