bal])</tt></h3>
<p>
This loads the dynamic library given by <tt>name</tt> and returns
a new C&nbsp;library namespace which binds to its symbols. On POSIX
systems, if <tt>global</tt> is <tt>true</tt>, the library symbols are
loaded into the global namespace, too.
</p>
<p>
If <tt>name</tt> is a path, the library is loaded from this path.
Otherwise <tt>name</tt> is canonicalized in a system-dependent way and
searched in the default search path for dynamic libraries:
</p>
<p>
On POSIX systems, if the name conta