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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:17:36 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl's ldd - don't exit immidately even if some libraries
 was not found

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:53:16PM -0700, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:42:10 +0800
> orc <orc@...server.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Patch to make ldd not to exit immidately after unsolved dependencies.
> 
> Out of curiosity, 
> 1-what practical use is this, and
> 
> 2-is there any other system that behaves the same? 
> 
> (well, I can think of HXRT with one environment variable set...but
> that's Windows emulation for DOS, so I can see them having odd behavior)
> 
> (Note, I'm not saying it's the wrong thing to do, just wondering where
> you could use it without expecting SIGSEGV)

My guess is that the practical use is to get a list of ALL missing
library dependencies rather than just the first one.

Rich

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