solib: URL patch

Wed Aug 13 16:47:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年8月13日, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Tom Tromey writes:
> >
> > This restriction will be lifted once we move to the new ABI. Then we
> > will be able to load .so files privately (instead of RTLD_GLOBAL).
>> Uh, we've decide this for sure, have we? I mean, it sounds like a
> good idea, but have you dot a solid design in mind? We still need a
> mechanism that will allow us to call .so files from CNI code, I guess.

Does there need to be any CNI mechanism for this? Or is Java's
Class.forName() etc. adequate to load/invoke the solib?
For my 2 cents, I like this patch a lot. My only nit is that the name
"solib:" is a bit peculiar. It refers to the defacto suffix naming of
shared libraries on ELF targets (which are quite common now, I admit).
I'd marginally prefer "sharedlib:" over "solib:".
Jeff