1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/FAQ/hackers.sgml b/FAQ/hackers.sgml
index 0d1bdd4417..197f42dce4 100644
--- a/FAQ/hackers.sgml
+++ b/FAQ/hackers.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: hackers.sgml,v 1.11 1999-01-21 01:49:12 jkh Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: hackers.sgml,v 1.12 1999-02-17 03:08:21 jkoshy Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
   <sect>
@@ -487,4 +487,19 @@ Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
       phase. If it does, type 'continue' and it will finish the crash
       dump." -ed]</em>
 
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>dlsym() stopped working for ELF executables!</heading>
+
+      <p>The ELF toolchain does not, by default, make the symbols 
+      defined in an executable visible to the dynamic linker.  
+      Consequently <tt>dlsym()</tt> searches on handles obtained 
+      from calls to <tt>dlopen(NULL, flags)</tt> will fail to find
+      such symbols.
+
+      <p>If you want to search, using <tt>dlsym()</tt>, for symbols 
+      present in the main executable of a process, you need to link 
+      the executable using the <tt>-export-dynamic</tt> option to the
+      <htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ld" 
+      name="ELF linker">.
+
   </sect>