Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/26/2002 18:06:45
[ On Monday, August 26, 2002 at 20:34:54 (+0200), Johnny Billquist wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system
>
> However, what's preventing us from writing a separate dlopen() function
> that can live in the statically linked binary?
Personally I would want my kernel to prevent that if at all possible
(though yes, at the moment I believe we have an executable stack on some
platforms, so I guess it can't be quite so protective yet)
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