p11-kit-proxy.so

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

p11-kit 0.3 featured this addition:

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 Create a link for the proxy module.

  * Install proxy module at its own path which is not prefixed by 'lib'
  * Since the proxy module is the same as the library, and actually
    needs to be loaded as the same library in memory (due to resource
    tracking per process), use a symlink for proxy.
  * Add a variable to the pkg-config file which shows the path
    to the proxy module. ie:
    $ pkg-config --variable=proxy_module p11-kit-1

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725905
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I am not familiar with the technical details of how p11-kit-proxy is
used (I guess I am missing some basic knowledge to understand the
documentation.), but I guess it is being dlopened. Is this correct?

Should applications really access the *unversioned* module? Won't there
be breakage if the p11-kit ABI breaks (e.g. changing the size of a struct)?

thanks, cu andreas

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