Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
18 Jan 1999 14:46:04 -0800


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:

> You can already do it in Linux. LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH allow you
> to control and modify linkloading order.

You should not propagate the use of LD_PRELOAD so much. In future
every use of this envvar will add quite a severe penalty to the
execution time. Or better said: if a programs is started with
LD_PRELOAD it cannot take advantage of the optimizations which will be
implemented sometime soon.

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