reload .so without restarting process

[Nicholas Mc Guire]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2013, Hatt Tom wrote:

> And also : why cannot I dlclose a .so that I've linked my executable
> to, in the usual fashion.
> 
> is it because the reference count of that .so  would not alwayes to be zero ?
> 
> It seems puzzling to me ?
>
how would you ensure consistency of the GOT ?
I think the problem is that you would end up with invalid addresses in the GOT 
as they were setup by ld based on link-time information.

thx!
hofrat