Comment by geocar
9 hours ago
> But you can't take .so files and make one "static" binary out of them.
Yes you can!
This is more-or-less what unexec does
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21394916
For some reason nobody seems to like this sorcery, probably because it combines the worst of all worlds.
But there's almost[1] nothing special about what the dynamic linker is doing to get those .so files into memory that it can't arrange them in one big file ahead of time!
[1]: ASLR would be one of those things...
What if the library you use calls dlopen later? That’ll fail.
There is no universal, working way to do it. Only some hacks which work in some special cases.
> What if the library you use calls dlopen later? That’ll fail.
Nonsense. xemacs could absolutely call dlopen.
> There is no universal, working way to do it. Only some hacks which work in some special cases.
So you say, but I remember not too long ago you weren't even aware it was possible, and you clearly didn't check one of the most prominent users of this technique, so maybe you should also explain why I or anyone else should give a fuck about what you think is a "hack"?