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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-07-16 17:02:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-08-08 17:35:44 +0200 |
| commit | 747b2b0a98a6496fc8d7150a01883003f5da6c4d (patch) | |
| tree | 2e123df176059a6c85c54330db222a7943c6e7f2 | |
| parent | 9ebcbe137748fc06765289c20b2cce7b0a0c6d9d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-747b2b0a98a6496fc8d7150a01883003f5da6c4d.tar.gz | |
dlopen.3: dlclose() will unload the object when all references have been released
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/dlopen.3 | 12 |
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diff --git a/man3/dlopen.3 b/man3/dlopen.3 index c5d359a3ff..b4c9d53592 100644 --- a/man3/dlopen.3 +++ b/man3/dlopen.3 @@ -286,6 +286,18 @@ All shared objects that were automatically loaded when was invoked on the object referred to by .I handle are recursively closed in the same manner. + +A successful return from +.BR dlclose () +does not guarantee that the symbols associated with +.I handle +are removed from the caller's address space. +In addition to references resulting from explicit +.BR dlopen () +calls, a shared object may have been implicitly loaded +(and reference counted) because of dependencies in other shared objects. +Only when all references have been released can the shared object +be removed from the address space. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR dlopen () |