Re: Self-initializing shared library? Dan Koren wrote:
> "Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4200b449$1@news.meer.net...
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> I should have perhaps clarified that this would be used
> as a system wide library to be loaded shortly after boot.
> Think of it as a system wide LD_PRELOAD.
>
Libraries only get loaded by processes and not by the system. If the
library needed some shared per system resource, like a shared memory
segment, it would have to be loaded by a process that then creates the
resource. That process could be started early in the boot via smf.
--chris |