Ian Piumarta <Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr> is widely believed to have written:

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> But the "problem" occurs when looking in an external module, not an
> internal one.
Oh - duh, I had lost the context and assumed it was internal stuff
causing the problem.

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> Helpful, eh?  My gut reaction has always been to try to make things
> work identically everywhere, even when this means ignoring a
> whizz-bang feature like RTLD_LOCAL because the behaviour cannot be
> simulated reliably on all Unixes.  But maybe I'm wrong in thinking
> this way?)
Sounds like the usual problem afflicting unices - it's the same
everywhere except for <insert list almost as long the the OS
sourcecode>. If Linux can do the 'right' thing and others can't maybe it
would be best to live with that? It sounds as if you can provide a
Pareto-efficient solution.

tim
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