> The real fix is to change the dynamic loader(s) to make use of the
> RTLD_GLOBAL flag, which makes all dlopen'ed symbols available to everyone.
> Personally, I don't see any harm in using this option. Does anyone else?
> (In fact, if someone were to create an untrusted PL/Perl language he would
> probably run into this problem as well.)
I have RTLD_GLOBAL on BSD/OS, and it calls it a Linux-compatibility
flag. I am pretty amazed you got it working without RTLD_GLOBAL.
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