Re: glibc developers refuse to support user land fake FS syscalls

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
02 Jul 1999 18:00:08 -0700


"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I don't know how often I repeated this already:
>
> LD_PRELOAD is a *hack*, not a solution.
>
> There have been enough uses of LD_PRELOAD over the years that perhaps
> it's time to consider finding a clean way of giving that sort of
> functionality.

Anything which influences the symbol lookup path in the dynamic linker
is preventing optimizations (in the lookup process == faster startup
and generally faster ld.so). I don't want this.

What's wrong with upcalls for these kind of situations?

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