>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> writes:
    Todd> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Kevin P. Neal wrote:

    Todd> : > 	it seems to me that there are a couple of twists in dlopen() handling
    Todd> : > 	in NetBSD.
    Todd> : > 	1. static linked binaries cannot use dlopen().
    Todd> :
    Todd> : I think this is a mistake.

    Todd> This is an artifact of the design of the [particularly ELF] dynamic loader.
    Todd> For ELF, the kernel loads the ld.elf_so as the program interpreter *BEFORE*
    Todd> the main program is completely set up to run.

  understood.
  isn't this just a question of providing libdl.a?

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