Re: dlopen() without RTLD_GLOBAL

[Andy Wingo <wingo pobox com>]

On Fri, 03 May 2002, Dan Winship wrote:

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

of course. that's why the flag exists in the first place ;)

on a less flippant note, gstreamer uses _GLOBAL for some optional
run-time support libraries. we would like to have the option to not use
it for another variety of loadable objects, so having both options would
be really nice.

regards,

wingo.