Re: Fwd: [PATCH] find: load libselinux with dlopen instead of linking

On 2026-07-18 raf <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> When I saw the patch, it seemed to me that the only
> benefit of dlopen would be on systems that start off
> not using selinux but later switch to using selinux, or
> vice versa.[...] 

Hello,

it allows distributors to build findutils with selinux support while
avoiding a hard dependency on libselinx.

I also do not think the size benefit is worth the added complexity,
though. (This is differrent for systemd, which uses dlopen for security
reasons. - See xz.)

cu Andreas
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