Re: [PATCH] libltdl: don't dlopen libraries with the GLOBAL flag

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 24 Mar 2004, at 04:07, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:00, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > Scott James Remnant wrote:
> >
> > > This was discussed on bug-libtool, and the consensus seemed to be 
> > > that
> > > we shouldn't be doing this.  For the bug, see:
> > >
> > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2004-03/msg00094.html
> > >
> > >
> > > Okay to apply?
> >
> > Is there really no documentation that requires updating with this 
> > change?
> None that I could find.

The documentation for libltdl is a bit sketchy.  I'd like to split it 
out into
a separate .texi file and beef it out quite a lot after the next 
release.

It would be good if you could explain why we did this in NEWS...

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The normal behavior of a "module" is that the program or library which
> loads it then uses lt_dlsym() to obtain the address of symbols.  It is
> not expected that modules have the behavior of normal shared
> libraries.  Therefore, it seems to me that libltdl should not be
> supplying RTLD_GLOBAL at all.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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