Subject: Re: dlopen type function
To: None <graphix@iastate.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/20/1995 21:47:13
On Wed, 20 Sep 1995 20:48:44 CDT 
 Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu> wrote:

 >   Would someone suggest a set of functions which are similar to dlopen,
 > dlsym, dlclose and dlerror which are available with NetBSD?  My goal is
 > to be able to have an executable be able to "load other functions" which
 > where not actually linked into the program originally.

Well, in /usr/include/dlfcn.h live the prototypes for those functions.  
This header was an addition to -current since 1.0.  I'm not sure there 
the protos live in 1.0, though I'm pretty sure the functions exist.

There really ought to be manual pages for these functions...

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