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diff --git a/crypto/dso/README b/crypto/dso/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0bc9a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/crypto/dso/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +NOTES +----- + +I've checked out HPUX (well, version 11 at least) and shl_t is +a pointer type so it's safe to use in the way it has been in +dso_dl.c. On the other hand, HPUX11 support dlfcn too and +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. + +There is now a callback scheme in place where filename conversion can +(a) be turned off altogether through the use of the + DSO_FLAG_NO_NAME_TRANSLATION flag, +(b) be handled by default using the default DSO_METHOD's converter +(c) overriden per-DSO by setting the override callback +(d) a mix of (b) and (c) - eg. implement an override callback that; + (i) checks if we're win32 (if(strstr(dso->meth->name, "win32")....) + and if so, convert "blah" into "blah32.dll" (the default is + otherwise to make it "blah.dll"). + (ii) default to the normal behaviour - we're not on win32, eg. + finish with (return dso->meth->dso_name_converter(dso,NULL)). + |