"Chris Gerhard" <Chris.Gerhard@remove_this.sun.com> wrote in message
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> Dan Koren wrote:
> > "Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:4200b449$1@news.meer.net...
> >
> >
> > 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.
>


Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, this is not what
I am looking for. I need the ability to load a shared library
*before* any user processes start running.

I suppose I will have to write a driver to accomplish this.


dk