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[Andrew Haley]

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > 
 > >> I'd prefer to use dlmopen to solve this instead, but I'm not sure it
 > >> is actually suitable for our needs :-(
 > 
 > Andrew> I've heard you say so before, but you never said *why* you think it may
 > Andrew> not actually be suitable.  Can you tell us?
 > 
 > Yeah, sorry.  When loading a library into a new dlmopen namespace, I
 > wonder how other libraries needed by that library are handled.  E.g.,
 > a BC-compiled .so will depend on libgcj_bc.so.  I suppose it would try
 > to load a new copy of libgcj_bc.so into the new namespace... but this
 > is incorrect for our situation.

Eww, nasty.  I guess someone should try it and see.  It's one of those
things I've been meaning to get around to for ages now.

Andrew.