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Re: PATCH: Fix the dlopen failure


On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:34, H . J . Lu wrote:
> During dlopen, _dl_relocate_object may fail when something goes wrong.
> But l_opencount isn't updated yet. When that happens, you get memory
> corruption. This patch fixes it.

Please don't keep for yourself what this is supposed to fix.  I cannot
apply the patch without knowing this.  Just saying "memory corruption"
isn't enough.  What's the code path?

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