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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


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