Accessing global symbols from shared library

[William Blew]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Tim Moloney wrote:

I suggest taking a look at the implementation of the X server. It achieves
such a feat routinely.

> I am currently trying to port a Solaris application to Linux.  The
> Solaris application dynamically loads custom shared libraries which
> can access symbols in the main executable.  This is not a clean
> design, but it works.  From what I've seen so far, the Linux
> runtime loader does not allow a shared library to access symbols in
> the main executable.
>
> If someone knows of a linker switch or something that allows shared
> libraries to access global symbols, please let me know.
>
> Tim Moloney
>
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>
>

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