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(nobody) writes: > Russ McManus <russell.mcmanus@gs.com> writes: > > > I think guile should natively provide access to dlopen with the > > RTLD_GLOBAL flag (and all the other flags, btw), on systems that > > provide it. > > Agreed. What about giving dynamic-link optional arguments, so that > you can say > > (dynamic-link "libfoo.so" 'global 'lazy) > > What should be the defaults? I think RTLD_GLOBAL should be on by > default because, if I remember right, it's effect is `on' on systems > that don't have the flag (like FreeBSD). Well, I don't know the implications for existing code of changing the default to RTLD_GLOBAL, but for my uses, I think it is more useful than the current default. -russ -- The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.