On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:40:04PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > >meant to be loaded. OTOH, the Linux loader doesn't care where a > >symbol comes from, so long as something defines it. > > And what would be the implications of that? I mean, what happens > practically because of that? You can deceive the program by using LD_PRELOAD tricks: You may trace a certain group of functions, chosen by you. You may customize applications without having access to their source or modify them in other ways as you see fit (as long as it's dependent on a dynamically bound library function). And so on. Leslie -- NEW homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias.net/~sky/homepage/ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83
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