Re: Possible ld-so bug.

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:05:37 +0100


Hi!

> Yes. The install does `mv library library.sav` ; `cp new_library library`.
> So, In principle, this should work. However it doesn't, apparently
> because one can only perform one operation at a time so at some instant,
> there is a new ld-linux.so and an old libc.n.n.so. And `mv`, `install`,
> 'cp`, etc. all use these libraries. This would not happen if the library
> version numbers were different because 'mv'. etc., would always use
> the library.n.n.so it was linked against.

Hmm, you don't need to do it at same time. You just want to do it from
one executable. So if you do neccessary operations from midnight
commander (:-O) you should be ok.

Pavel

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