> but you would want to be able to load the same .so twice without symbol naming conflicts This is supported in ld-linux by using the dlmopen() glibc function

> but you would want to be able to load the same .so twice without symbol naming conflicts This is supported in ld-linux by using the dlmopen() glibc function and distinct namespaces. Loading the same .so file multiple times is one of the use cases explicitly mentioned in the manual page[1]. [1]: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlmopen.3.html#NOTES http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlmopen.3.html#NOTES