Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH 2/2] Fix plugin load failure on OS/2

[KO Myung-Hun]

Hi/2.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:32:25 +0900
>>
>> OS/2 cannot load DLLs whose base name is longer than 8 characters.
>> Because of this, libtool limits length of DLL base name up to 8
>> characters. In Gawk, limits likewise.
> 
> Isn't it better/cleaner to have an OS/2 wrapper for dlopen, and
> truncate the name there?  (And why doesn't dlopen itself do that, if
> this is an OS/2 limitation?)
> 

Unfortunately, wrapping dlopen() is not enough. Because gawk checks the
existence of extensions with find_source(). This patch is for it.

I have a question. there are any cases calling load_ext() without
find_source() ? If not, workaround for dlopen() is not needed.

-- 
KO Myung-Hun

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