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Re: RFC: Support DF_1_GLOBAL

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> It is useful when RTLD_GLOBAL is needed for plugins to work
>> correctly and you can't recompile applications to pass
>> RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen.
>
> So it's needed when it's needed.  That really doesn't tell me anything.

There is nothing stopping passing RTLD_GLOBAL to dlopen
automatically on a per shared object basis.  It isn't a caller
decision if nested dlopen is supported.

-- 
H.J.
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