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Does it *have* to be the C library?Does it *have* to be the C library?Posted Nov 30, 2010 22:20 UTC (Tue) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048)In reply to: Does it *have* to be the C library? by cesarb Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project
Because sometimes, even often, coolnewsyscall() is really just a function that enables a better, faster, or more flexible implementation of boringlibcfunction().
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Does it *have* to be the C library? Posted Dec 1, 2010 14:14 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]
Isn't LD_PRELOAD=liblinux.so able to sneak new code into glibc and solve this problem?
Does it *have* to be the C library? Posted Dec 2, 2010 14:42 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
No. Internal glibc->glibc calls do not go via the PLT and are not subject to interposition, thus LD_PRELOAD has no effect on them. (This is a big speed boost.)
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