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Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/dso/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/dso/README | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/dso/README b/crypto/dso/README index 5a9b86f4c3..6ba03c5631 100644 --- a/crypto/dso/README +++ b/crypto/dso/README @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@ TODO ---- -Get a fix on how the paths should be handled. For now, flags == 0 -and this is currently just passing strings directly onto the -underlying system calls and letting them do what they want with -the paths. However, it may be desirable to implement flags that -control the way the loading is performed (or attempted), and I -invisage that DSO_ctrl() will be used to control this. +Find a way where name-translation can be done in a way that is +sensitive to particular methods (ie. generic code could still do +different path/filename substitutions on win32 to what it does on +*nix) but doesn't assume some canonical form. Already one case +exists where the "blah -> (libblah.so,blah.dll)" mapping doesn't +suffice. I suspect a callback with an enumerated (or string?) +parameter could be the way to go here ... DSO_ctrl the callback +into place and it can be invoked to handle name translation with +some clue to the calling code as to what kind of system it is. NOTES ----- @@ -18,5 +21,4 @@ according to their man page, prefer developers to move to that. I'll leave Richard's changes there as I guess dso_dl is needed for HPUX10.20. -[G-T] |