LD_PRELOAD=<library> versus /etc/modules ... <module>; was "Re (2): LD_PRELOAD=<driver> versus /etc/modules ... <module>"
From: Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:24:29 +0000 (UTC)
> I'm not aware of a kernel module named v4l1compat, so I can't see how
> explicitly loading such a module would have helped anyway.
OK, a spelling error.
peter@dalton:~$ egrep -v '(^ *#)|(^ *$)' /etc/modules
loop
v4l1_compat
> The problem you were facing was a userspace one, namely, how to force an
> executable to load a library that would not otherwise be loaded. That's
> what LD_PRELOAD achieves.
Is "loading /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so" synonymous with "loading module
v4l1_compat"? If so, then why does the library work for skype in one case
and not in the other?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
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