* Nico Kadel-Garcia: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 1:39 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> I'd like to provide an ld.so command as part of glibc. Today, ld.so can >> be used to activate preloading, for example. Compared to LD_PRELOAD, >> the difference is that it's specific to one process, and won't be >> inherited by subprocesses—something is that exactly what is needed. >> There is also some useful diagnostic output in --help, >> --list-diagnostics. > > That seems a horrible idea. The ".so" suffix indicates that it is a > library file, not an executable
“Horrible”? Fedora already ships a manual page for this program, documenting its command-line options. I didn't make up the name. Maybe we could call it “dl” (“dynamic loader” or “dynamic linker”) or “rtld” (“run-time dynamic linker”) instead. But fewer people will recognize those command names. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
