Re: glibc developers refuse to support user land fake FS syscalls

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
02 Jul 1999 17:54:02 -0700


"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> writes:

> > The other option is to do it as a global LD_PRELOAD, as I mentioned
> > earlier.
>
> Static binaries...
>
> Again, it depends on whether you want to make it work 100% or not.

And one more thing I forgot to mention: LD_PRELOAD never will work on
the dynamic loader itself. Therefore you will never be able to
overwrite the open/close/read/write/mmap calls used for loading shared
objects.

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