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From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
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Subject: Re: uselib()  & 2.6.X?
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Another issue is likely that we should make the whole "uselib()"
> > > interfaces configurable. I don't think modern binaries use it (where
> > > "modern" probably means "compiled within the last 8 years" ;).
> > 
> > I don't think it was ever being used for anything besides a.out so IMHO it
> > should depend on BINFMT_AOUT.
> 
> Let me contribute a man page. Comments welcome (-> aeb@cwi.nl).
> 
> USELIB(2)           Linux Programmer's Manual           USELIB(2)
> 
[...]
> 
>        Later code tries to prefix these  names  with  "/usr/lib",
>        "/lib" and "" before giving up.  In libc 4.4.1 these names

Don't you mean 
	"/lib" and "/" before giving up. 

??


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Jesper Juhl