Thanks Cinap, Richard, That makes sense and was probably obvious or in a man page somewhere.
Chris > On Sep 2, 2016, at 12:12 PM, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > > uses the first one it finds, so the order matters. its not unusual > for programs to override certain library function by providing ther > own version and putting them first in the object file list. this > works only when the function you want to replace sits alone in his > own object file (the smallest unit of linkage). > > the kernel does link in some standard libc functions, but obviously > not the ones attempting syscalls :) > > -- > cinap >