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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:29:01PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:10:53PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Just think about you have more than libc.so.6 on your Linux machine in
> > > different direcories and they are both visibible to ld-linux.so.2. Can
> > > you tell me what may happen?
> >
> > Argh. What part of "explain in excruciating detail" don't you
> > understand? I don't know the answers to these questions. You
> > apparently do. Tell us.
>
> When you have more than one libc.so.6, ld-linux.so.2 has to pick one.
> But how does ld-linux.so.2 know which one it should pick? Right now, we
> assume it won't happen since libc.so.6 is the system software. If the
> system vendor does put another libc.so.6 on the system, whatever
> ld-linux.so.2 picks is the right one since it is up to the system
> vendor to make sure that.
State your answers to ALL the questions posed in your previous mail,
please.
Re this: Your point is that now libgcc_s.so is in this category of
libraries which have to be unique, I think. Is this or is it not
adequately handled by installing libgcc_s.so in /lib?
zw