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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by mnw21cam on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:32AM (#20155737)
Indeed. But ld.so runs in the context of the process that is starting up, so if it doesn't have access to anything, it can't.
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Re:Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the ro... by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:34AM (#20155763)
It doesn't actually have to, but you'd need a fun bit of stub code in place of unloaded function pointers etc.
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