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    SubjectRe: glibc developers refuse to support user land fake FS syscalls
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    "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

    > I don't know how often I repeated this already:
    >
    > LD_PRELOAD is a *hack*, not a solution.
    >
    > There have been enough uses of LD_PRELOAD over the years that perhaps
    > it's time to consider finding a clean way of giving that sort of
    > functionality.

    Anything which influences the symbol lookup path in the dynamic linker
    is preventing optimizations (in the lookup process == faster startup
    and generally faster ld.so). I don't want this.

    What's wrong with upcalls for these kind of situations?

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