Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:42:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mikko@dynas.se Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with ld.so + LD_PRELOAD + _init() Message-ID: <199806172042.NAA27665@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980617172736.26318G-100000@spirit.dynas.se> from "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?=" at Jun 17, 98 05:30:47 pm
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> Fiddling around with LD_PRELOAD and wrapping of system calls, I > discovered that the "_init()" function of the preloaded lib never gets > called. > > It is not entirely clear from the man-page that it should be, > but on Solaris 2.[56], it is. And it works for libraries linked with > the program, as well as libraries loaded with dlopen(). Also, it > sometimes makes life a lot easier... It should be called. If it is not called, pure virtual base class constructors won't be called for C++ shared objects. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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