BUG inside glibc [Function: dlopen dlgetsym] // Linux, Mandrake 8 // glibc-2.2.2-5mdk

[Christian Groove]

Dear sirs

i had to find out, that the dll-functions does not work properly
with regard to the UNIX98 standard !

        dlopen(NULL, RTLD_GLOBAL);

would normally return an handle, that permits the following
dllsym function:

        dlsym(dlHandle, "myfunction" ) ;

to retrieve the adress of the function, that resides in the
actual adress space. Also a 

        dlopen(argv[0], RTLD_GLOBAL)

fails to return a usable handle !! This is not conform to
the UNIX98 standard, that provides exactly this.

If i have some time, i may take a look into the code, but i guess
we need somebody with ELF-Knowhow ..

Trusting to hear from you soon
Groovy