Re: lt_dlerror changes

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Charles Wilson wrote:
> The final loader called, for "/usr/bin/last" -- which exists -- is the
> 'last' loader.  In last_open(), it sets LT_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND as a
> sort of "generic" error value -- which, strangely, is exactly the
> OPPOSITE of the problem here.
>
> The real problem is there actually IS a file named /usr/bin/last, but
> because that name does not match exactly "last", last_open() reports
> what it considers a generic error.

I seem to be backlogged by the flurry of email, but hopefully you guys 
will get this figured out.  I would be astonished if Windows 
LoadLibrary() is not willing to load a Windows executable file similar 
to the way it loads a DLL.  If so, this raises security implications 
that we want to avoid.

Bob
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