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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!news.nynexst.com!nynexst.com!hjl From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dynloading and FBSD2.? Date: 2 Jun 1995 17:15:42 GMT Organization: Nynex Science & Technology, Inc. Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3qngvu$aet@news.nynexst.com> References: <3qn4eq$7m5@shore.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jalod.nynexst.com In article <3qn4eq$7m5@shore.shore.net>, witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) writes: |> As far as I can tell, there is no *supported* way of doing |> on freebsd what you do with dl_open() and friends lets you |> do on other systems. I say *supported* because the crtl |> startof code seems to roll its own versions of these routines, |> but there is no man page and no .h file for general use of these. I think it is called dlopen (). You should find it in xxxBSD. But in my opinion, the SunOS style dynamic link/load is too weak. The ELF one is much much better. You can find a paper at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/GCC/elf.ps.gz. H.J. |> |> Has this changed in 2.0.5? Can someone explain how to use |> the existing 2.0 stuff (like, what to use for RTLD_LAZY, etc)? |> |> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM |> R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA