Roger A. Faulkner wrote: > Regardless of the merits of the Draconian approach (which I like!), > there is merit to the idea of providing a preloadable shim library > that provides the old leading-underscore symbols and jumps directly > (via the PLT and GOT) to the corresponding non-underscore symbols. > > I created it yesterday and named it: > > /lib/libshim.so.1 > /lib/64/libshim.so.1 > > So I'm adding this item to the official proposal. > > I welcome suggestions for a better name. > > Roger > lib-toxic-waste-from-NJ.so.1 ??? :-)
(Actually, that's not fair given 1990's linker technology) Unfortunately, I don't have a better suggestion, but I hope somebody does. At least some refernance to "sym". ...... What is the commitment level to "libshim"? More relevantly, does this get a man page? Does it get no man page, but some other documentation (linker guide?)? Its kinda strange, because I can understand lots of reasons to document it in unique ways, but I suspect it should be documented somewhere. - jek3
