As far as I know, this should be safe. If not, we have to decide whether
to have variable lookup of the functions, or just drop support for .so.0
(which is a year and a half old it looks like)
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74127
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
{
if (!udev_handle) {
udev_handle = dlopen("libudev.so.1", RTLD_LOCAL | RTLD_LAZY);
+
+ if (!udev_handle) {
+ /* libudev.so.1 changed the return types of the two unref functions
+ * from voids to pointers. We don't use those return values, and the
+ * only ABI I've heard that cares about this kind of change (calling
+ * a function with a void * return that actually only returns void)
+ * might be ia64.
+ */
+ udev_handle = dlopen("libudev.so.0", RTLD_LOCAL | RTLD_LAZY);
+ }
}
return udev_handle;