Subject: Re: [wiz@netbsd.org: Re: kern/11961: ld.so(1) manual is misguiding about LD_PRELOAD]
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@er.reziprozitaet.de>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 05/16/2001 11:50:31
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:

> Forwarded from a discussion began on source-changes and continued
> in gnats in the context of PR 11961...
> 
> 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.



- Klaus