[4620] in testers
Re: linux: more xalf woes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu May 17 15:51:35 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Test Faculty <factest@mit.edu>, ajfox@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 17 May 2001 15:51:29 -0400
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Both programs are linked against libc5; it's not surprising that
> > attempting to pull in libc6 preloads fails.
>
> Or, perhaps the libc6 preload succeeds, but the referenced symbols
> become invalid because the library is dlclose()d before the symbols
> are invoked. (Not that we would want to call those symbols anyway.)
Sloppy wording...I meant "leads to lossage." One obvious workaround
is to have the wrapper scripts remove LD_PRELOAD from the environment
on Linux, but that's hardly ideal.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
