Re: Package requiring a customised version of another package
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Justin Pryzby wrote:
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>> which means the
>> preloader library doesn't get a chance to override it. plasticfs wants a glibc
>> compiled with --disable-hidden-plt to expose this interface.
> I still don't understand why?
I *presume* so that plasticfs can just override open() and not have to worry
about overriding fopen() and getpwent() and tmpfile() and all the other glibc
functions that call open() internally.
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