netbsd-bugs: Re: bin/3677: /etc/rc recreates ld.so.hints too late

Subject: Re: bin/3677: /etc/rc recreates ld.so.hints too late
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/28/1997 11:59:44

> 	/etc/rc cleans out /var/run and then proceeds to execute various
> 	utilities that are linked with dynamic libraries.  Since /var/run/ld.so.hints
> 	has been deleted, rtld fails and thus several utilities do not get
> 	started.

If ld.so.hints is necessary for correct operation, isn't that itself a
pretty serious bug?  After all, it _is_ ld.so.*hints*. :-)

					der Mouse

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