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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "qpid/sys/Shlib.h"
+#include "qpid/Exception.h"
+#include "qpid/Msg.h"
+#include <dlfcn.h>
+
+
+namespace qpid {
+namespace sys {
+
+void Shlib::load(const char* name) {
+    ::dlerror();
+    handle = ::dlopen(name, RTLD_NOW);
+    const char* error = ::dlerror();
+    if (error) {
+        throw Exception(QPID_MSG(error << ": " << name));
+    }
+}
+
+void  Shlib::unload() {
+    if (handle) {
+        ::dlerror();
+        ::dlclose(handle);
+        const char* error = ::dlerror();
+        if (error) {
+            throw Exception(QPID_MSG(error));
+        }
+        handle = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+void*  Shlib::getSymbol(const char* name) {
+    ::dlerror();
+    void* sym = ::dlsym(handle, name);
+    const char* error = ::dlerror();
+    if (error) 
+        throw Exception(QPID_MSG(error << ": " << name));
+    return sym;
+}
+
+}} // namespace qpid::sys