Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:52:05PM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote:
> This is because libc on Linux is LGPL'ed. Now suppose that you work on
> a system where you cannot rename libc -- either because of license or
> because you are not a superuser. Still you can say something like
>
> export LD_PRELOAD=my.cool.libc-substitute.so
>
> and all your dynamically linked programs will use your substitute.
I think this is a bad example in the context of this discussion. We
would not consider it acceptable if we couldn't modify the libc and the
libc copyright holders said "LD_PRELOAD is available, so use that
instead".
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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