* PODOPLELOV Andrei: > I believe it would be beneficial to change it to something like: > > --filter=name > When creating an ELF shared object (a "filter"), set the > internal DT_FILTER field to the specified name - another > ELF shared object (a "filtee"). This tells the dynamic linker > that the symbol table of the "filter" should be used to > select a subset of the symbols provided by the "filtee". > > When you link a program against this "filter" and run it, > the dynamic linker will see the DT_FILTER field and resolve > symbols according to the symbol table of the "filter" object > as usual. However, when a certain symbol of the "filter" is > also present in "filtee", it will actually link to the > definition in the "filtee". I think that's still misleading because to my knowledge, glibc does not implement any filtering. Only the symbol search order is changed (what you describe in the second paragraph). Thanks, Florian
