[PATCH] ppc64 LD_PRELOAD tolerance

[Steve Munroe]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:

> But these people should be doing something like:
>   LD_PRELOAD=libdsocks.so.N

I don't control what these people do. I only get the (Level 3) service
calls  :(

> And Roland has been saying all along that that should work fine in a
> hybrid environment.  Only if they do LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libdsocks.so.N
> is there a problem; don't do that!

Only if they (someone) provides both 32- and 64-bit versions of
libdsocks.so.N (or a dummy of the same name) and only if LD_LIBRARY_PATH
includes paths to both versions.  Now we are back to precognition. ;)

Otherwise the user gets a unpleasant surprise.