On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

: > 2. There are times when it is useful for a program, whether statically
: > or dynamically linked itself, to (optionally) load pieces of code, etc.
: > from shared objects.  This is the functionality currently provided to
: > dynamically linked programs by dlopen(), but missing in statically
: > linked programs.
:
: I do not agree.  Any program which really needs the ability to load,
: even optionally, any additional code after having started, can always be
: dynamically linked.  This is the only way to even come close to
: preserving the integrity of the unix process security model.

s/can always be/must always be/

Making dlopen() "work" in static binaries is basically asking the ELF spec
to bend itself over a table....

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