Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
Internet & Networking This article offers feature suggestions to budding OS developers looking for that neat edge.
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You don't need another OS for that
by milky on Wed 4th Aug 2004 00:48 UTC

LD_PRELOAD= would do the trick with the additional benefit, that you
could only enable it for Apps where it made sense.

It's probably easy to convert libferris or something alike into a libc
wrapper, that you simply load `export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libhttpfopen.so`
whenever needed. This was done before with "zlibc" or "libtrash" and
is far easier than to recompile libc or singe apps. Not a big thing -
write that, not the feature request article!