reload .so without restarting process

[Hatt Tom]

If I use dlsym() to load the address manually ,will  GOT  be  needed any more ?







2013/12/2 Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>:
> 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



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