Re: Metadata, a complete, WELL DOCUMENTED, idea, and responce.

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper cygnus com>]

Leareth <leareth@geocities.com> writes:

> 1> Where metalib is loaded useing LD_PRELOAD, and all apps are
> auto "linked" against it at runtime, and any symbols that were linked
> at compile time are over written by the symbols in any library listed in
> the LD_PRELOAD statment. giveing you the chance to suply your own
> version of std commands with hand written ones. Care must be taken
> with this, as any symbols in your hand written library WILL over ride
> thous in a app, or library with which it is linked. A very safe nameing
> scheme must be adopted.

Just a warning: with some upcoming changes in the ld.so starting ELF
programs will become much faster *unless* you use LD_PRELOAD.  A
mathod which entirely depends on LD_PRELOAD is weak, at best.

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