Re: dlopen() without RTLD_GLOBAL

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:05, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes: 
> > the demand to load modules with non-global symbols has popped up often
> > enough to justify it's implementations though, but users (docs) need to
> > be aware that G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL (that's the flag name we should actually
> > use) isn't correctly honoured on all systems.
> 
> Yep, that makes sense. I figured it was missing due to portability
> issues, but I think it makes sense to avoid loading these symbols
> globally on platforms where we can do that.

In the case of gmodule, does it ever make sense to use RTLD_GLOBAL?

-- Dan