On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 21:58:36 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I'm doing is running a pipe between two background processes. > Opening pipe for reading and writing both fail "illegal seek". Does this > qualify as "special requirements" ?
No. > In any event I'm curious now to know what this file does do (and perhaps > some example of the sort of special requirements that might require it) ? Take a look at the `libnfslock' package. Basically, ld.so.preload is a list of libraries to load prior to loading the shared libraries a binary depends on. This can e.g. be used to tweak the behaviour of standard C library functions like open(), which is what libnfslock does to fix a locking issue over NFS. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
