On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:

 > - someone thinks it's a good idea.

In this case, the "someone" is "a lot of people", and they have a very
legitimate reason:

	1. dlopen() opens the door to more flexible pluggable auth
	   methods.

	2. dlopen() is needed for pluggable locales.

(2) is *extremely* important ... for all those languages which do not
use the ASCII character set.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>