Subject: Re: [wiz@netbsd.org: Re: kern/11961: ld.so(1) manual is misguiding about LD_PRELOAD]
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@er.reziprozitaet.de>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 05/16/2001 11:31:30
Klaus Klein <kleink@er.reziprozitaet.de> wrote on Wed, 16 May 2001
at 11:50:31 +0200 in <87sni5lj14.fsf@minor-variation.er.reziprozitaet.de>:

> > What's the scoop on the LD_PRELOAD format change?
> 
> Speaking of the guilty party in question, the idea is that the
> behavior of the ELF dynamic loader should closely follow SVR4, where
> the format originates from; all the implementations I've seen so far
> match this.

No opinions on backwards compatibility?

I guess if no one complained...still, it seems worth a bit of documentation
effort to me.

--jhawk