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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by NekkoDroid on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:00PM (#41176853)
> and then inventing a braindead delayed loading mechanism. That required adding custom ELF sections.

What are you talking about???

dlopen is hardly a new "delayed loading mechanism" and having a custom ELF section where the dlopen'd libraries are listed is just a positive thing for package managers, so that it can be automatically detected during build just like used SO files (for writing the build metadata files).

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Re:Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retro... by cyberax on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @11:55PM (#41178111)
> What are you talking about???

This: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/docs/ELF_DLOPEN...

> dlopen is hardly a new "delayed loading mechanism"

Yes, it's a well-known anti-pattern that libraries like glibc are trying to minimize.

When your fuckup requires a change in the basic system architecture, you are probably doing it wrong.

_All_ they needed to do was split libsystemd into libcoresystemd and libjournald. Only the latter requires libxz and other compressors.

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