From: KID01 (mat@dsbc.icl.co.uk)
Date: 04/14/93


From:  KID01 <mat@dsbc.icl.co.uk>
Subject: Backup libraries (was Re: The dangers of playing with shared libraries)
Date: 14 Apr 1993 09:40:23 GMT

In article <STEVEV.93Apr14005153@miser.uoregon.edu> stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
>In article <1qfot4$tin@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
[..]

Couldn't future version of linux binarys be compiled to first search for
/lib/libc.so.4 and if that fails try /lib/libc.so.4.3, etc, etc. This
shouldn't be a massive problem to setup and only if all of /lib was remove
would the user be in trouble ! (in which case the binaries could search in
/oops_i'v_lost_my_shared_libs/backup_here/libc.so.4)

Cheers

Matthew

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