On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Phil Pennock wrote: > Also, this release includes changes to let lookups by dynamically loaded > by Exim, so that library dependencies can be constrained to .so files. > This is known to work on Linux and FreeBSD. This is primarily intended > for use by OS packagers, since if you're building your own Exim you > should know which libraries you need and it will be faster to not have > to repeatedly load modules. > > While this dynamic module support is mostly the same as the patches > which have been used for some time by some OS packagers, there is an ABI > change, so modules from previous patched Exim builds will not work with > this, the first "official" support of dynamically loaded modules.
The diff from 4.73 is big enough that it isn't trivially obvious that the are sanity checks to stop a (local) hacker from substituting non-standard libraries. Can you confirm this ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
