Re: Question regarding dynamic_library_path

Hi,

in linux you can change LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a running process, but it does not
help. The library-loader initializes himself at process-startup and changing
LD_LIBRARY_PATH do not change the actual path, the process is using for
dlopen.

Tommi Mäkitalo

Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 19:14 schrieb Thomas Hallgren:
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
>
> > I think the idea is that you want to specify the path in the config
> > file, after the app has already started.  I don't think you can modify
> > the environment variable after the app has started, and even if you can,
> > it seems simpler to just do it in our code and specify the exact path
> > rather than having it poke around in whatever LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to.
>
> Ok, that makes sense. But I think most systems have the ability to change
> the environment of a running process (setenv on Posix systems) and the
> current design, simple as it is, doesn't work in all cases.
>
> regards,
>
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
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