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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: DSO (dynamic shared objects) support
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Il 18/06/2013 14:05, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>> > +        if (dlopen(path, RTLD_NOW) == NULL)
> For inter-module sybmol resolution (motivated by any functional
> dependencies, of course), RTLD_GLOBAL would be needed too (and then of
> course order of loading would matter).

I think we want to prohibit this specifically and use RTLD_LOCAL, at
least in the beginning.  If you have dependencies, just put them in a
single module.  As Michael mentioned, this is much simpler than the
Linux kernel's module stuff.

Paolo