Subject: Re: Enhancing sysctl support in ld.elf_so
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/18/2004 15:15:05
In article <20040618145321.B26892@yoda.cubidou.net>,  <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:32:11PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <20040618062111.134b08f3.netbsd@quatriemek.com>,
>> Quentin Garnier <netbsd@quatriemek.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >Here's the diff in the symbol table.  Is there anything I should worry
>> >about in it?
>> 
>> 
>> I don't think so; at this point rtld has relocated itself too.
>
>I think the only thing that might be an issue is getmibinfo's use of a
>static variable to hold (cache?) whatever it learns when called.  I
>don't think it uses any other static global.
>
>Could that be an issue for the running process afterwards?

Not really, the running process will have the same if it calls getmibinfo
itself.

christos