Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:27:16AM -0500, Penguin Lover Boyd Stephen Smith > Jr. squawked: > >>From what I understand there's not one. I believe X.org 7 ONLY supports >>the ELF loader. It could be for the unusual case that you are running an >>X based off of the xf86 tree which, IIRC, only supported the dll loader. >> > > > The otherway around. Xorg 7 only uses the dlloader. cf. > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml > > Also, the dlloader is compatible with hardened systems, while > elfloader fails horribly when it comes to PIC code. > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml > > I think the difference is basically that elfloader is built from > scratch by the X team, while dlloader just uses ld-linux.so from > glibc. > > W > Thanks guys. From what I've read, dlloader, while not quite experimental, is not used very much yet. Perhaps for the future. The only packages I would need it for are xorg-x11 and nvidia-glx. So I think I'll just enable it for those two only and not globally in make.conf.
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