[Python-Dev] next vs darwin (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
01 Feb 2002 20:19:46 +0100

Jack Jansen <jack@oratrix.com> writes:

Hmm. I had a look at the setdlopenflags() and accompanying infrastructure, and it seems you can set many flags to dlopen() through this call, is that right?

Correct. It is admittedly very Unixish at the moment.

If it is, is it a good idea to call the OSX-specific routine setdlopenflags() too, even though it will only support the "use global namespace" flag? Or is that the only flag you can reasonably pass to dlopen() anyway?

Effectively, yes. There is also a symbol RTLD_LOCAL, which is 0 on most systems, and it may be reasonable to add RTLD_LAZY (defer resolution of function symbols until they are called the first time).

Anyway, my main point is that this should be a run-time option. If the APIs can merge, that might be a good thing (even if it means to deprecate setdlopenflags); if that is not feasible, I'd atleast recommend that you put the control over extension loading also into sys.

Regards, Martin