Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/05/23/00:02:02
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:17:30PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>I had written earlier (and on an empty stomach):
>>
>> This has been a bug since day one, and one that needs a bit of redesign
>> of the code in winsup/dll_init.cc to do it right. The current code there
>> is quite complex, and overly so in some cases, and someone who knows more
>> about it needs to take a look.
>
>I was confused. My local hack was completely unnecessary since the code
>is actually all there, albeit a bit too complex for me to comprehend at
>first [and here's where I plug in the empty stomach bit].
I wouldn't blame your stomoach, Mumit. The code is pretty opaque. It's
begging for a complete rewrite. I've wanted to rewrite the stuff in
fork.cc several times. Every time I look at it I realize that, to do it
right, I'd have to modify the dl* stuff, too.
>The following should fix Eric's testcase that uses dlsym across fork.
Thanks.
FYI, I wrote a 'strmatchcase' function a while ago which should be slightly
faster than strcasecmp. I'll modify your patch to use this.
-chris
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