Re: [Openvpn-devel] Why must PAM library be dlopened?

2005-06-20 Thread James Yonan
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Simon Perreault wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:34, Simon Perreault wrote: > > I am wondering why the PAM library is dlopened by the auth-pam plugin. Why > > can't it simply be linked with it? > > More specifically, why can't the attached patch be applied? When I apply y

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Why must PAM library be dlopened?

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Perreault
On Sunday 19 June 2005 18:42, Matthias Andree wrote: > > .so's are only included in -devel packages because their only use is when > > linking. > > False. True. Let me explain why. > The linker, when linking a shared object, just writes a line > "bind library libfoo.so.4.2 at run time" into the