[parisc-linux] userspace function pointers in the kernel

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Cary Coutant wrote:

> allocate PLT entries for all exported symbols). This means that you might 
> be asked to dlclose a library that contains the PLT entry that is 
> currently in use as the official function pointer for a function in 
> another load module. If you go ahead and deallocate the library, you're 
> hosed.

Yup, another reason, this one really solid, to use David's dynamically
allocated fptrs.

Note to David:  Make sure dl-fptr.c:_dl_unmap doesn't have this same
problem, if this function is called on a dlcose.

Alan
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