Tom Lane wrote:
> On the other hand, it'd be relatively easy for clueless lusers to
> defeat; I can readily imagine someone copying foo.so.8.2 to foo.so.8.3
> when the backend complained that it couldn't find the latter. So
> maybe it's not what we want.
Hmm...but isn't the version number also something that can be stored
in the shared library itself during link time (e.g., via the -soname
option to the linker)? The manpage for ld under Linux implies that
this will cause the executable that's linked against the shared object
to look explicitly for a library with the soname specified by the
shared object. I don't know if that just causes the dynamic linker to
look for a file with the specified soname or if it will actually
examine the shared object under consideration to make sure it has the
DT_SONAME field in question, however.
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Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com
