Re: dlopen() without RTLD_GLOBAL

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> gdk-pixbuf and the like should definitely not be using RTLD_GLOBAL, 
> on platforms that support dlopen() with private symbols.
> Using RTLD_GLOBAL has the effect of stuffing all those image libs into
> our ABI, which kind of sucks.
>
> If we're doing a GLib 2.2, suggest that we add a
> G_MODULE_LOCAL_SYMBOLS flag to GModuleFlags.
>  
Theme engines, pango modules and input methods should probably also be 
loaded private.

James.

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