kdeutils/kregexpeditor/test

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 09:10 am, Malte Starostik wrote:
> > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=101225826622056&w=2
> >
> >  Can't we put this in some FAQ?
>
> IMHO this is really very evil.
> Wouldn't it be cleaner - and producing less surprises - to always load
> plugins with RTLD_GLOBAL and have a policy that every KDE plugin MUST (as
> in RFCs :) put symbols it defines into an own namespace?

No, since there is no way that we could enforce such policy it i unlikely to 
be followed and will result in crashes that are much harder to track down.

The recent ksirc crashes are an example of exactly such crashes.

Cheers,
Waldo
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