okay, i'm bringing back a thread from a year ago. for mod_parrot, i'd like to be able to loadlib the running process image (httpd) and dlfunc the various apache API functions. however, while this works for libc functions, and any other functions from shared libraries, it appears not to work for those statically linked into the binary. in fact,
loadlib self_lib, nullstring dlfunc func, self_lib, "ap_rputs", "ptv" will reliably segfault on my box (RHEL 3.0) to get around this, i've written a separate shared object that wraps the apache API functions that i want to call from parrot. i call those via NCI, and it works like a charm. so, my questions: 1. can you still dlopen the running image by passing a NULL string to loadlib? 2. can you dlsym (via dlfunc) a statically linked function? if it turns out i CAN'T access the statically linked functions, i'll keep the wrappers around, but i don't want to get too deep into it without making sure first! -jeff
