dlclose() doesn't unload any .so that uses Boost

[J]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Pavel Tolkachev <paultolk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I admit I spoke too soon, assumed before actually trying your code. After I have tried (both 1st and 2nd versions), the code gave different output to me:
>
> host: Loading libchild.so...
> child: Constructor
> host: so = 0x8db4020
> host: Unloading libchild.so...
> child: Destructor
> host: Unloaded.
> host: (nil)

Interesting. By "the code gave different output" do you mean the first
version or the second one? Or both?

> Which seems correct (dlclose() calls the dtor()). I used
> gcc version 4.4.5
> libdl-2.12.1.so
> boost 1.45.0
> Linux kernel 2.6.35-28
> libc-2.12.1.so
>

Mine are:
gcc version 4.6.0
libdl-2.13.so
boost 1.46.0
Linux kernel 2.6.38
libc-2.13.so

I'm basically running a more up-to-date system than you, so it's
either a) distribution induced bug (I'm on Debian) or b) a bug
introduced recently.

Thanks.