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Re: [Bug] modules zsh/tcp, zsh/zftp unloadable, probably affecting most modern Linuxes

> 2023/06/06 18:05, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/06/2023 07:42 Jun T <takimoto-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Why '-z now' is used when building binary packages? For security?
> 
> I think this is just so that failure to find symbols at all will
> show up quickly in the build rather than at run time, which would
> be a real pain.

I think '-z now' is to mark (add the flag) zftp.so so that the
dynamic linker resolves all the symbols when _loading_ it;
the symbols are not resolved when _building_ zftp.so.
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