Re: shadowing libc

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Yesterday at 23:14, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> We don't care /that much/ about other systems.  The main concern
> other than Linux and Windows have been Solaris.  What LD_PRELOAD
> buys is uniformity of locale data on the Linux platform, that we
> would lack otherwise.  I don't think we can push all those
> core-utils and other packages to use our library.  Or we may
> expect ditributors to push in the library at build time...

On GNU systems we can have that using LOCPATH instead: i.e. generate
standard locales with data changes in a temporary path.  I doubt this
is available on any other system, though.

Cheers,
Danilo