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[Assar Westerlund]

Christopher Allen Wing <wingc at engin.umich.edu> writes:
> Erik:
> 
> > One good thing about having it is that some non-free application, that only
> > come as binaries, still uses libc5 and then it chokes without getcwd.so.  One
> > example is acroread (of cource there are alternatives to that software)
> 
> To solve this problem here, I just hacked libc5 to include support for the
> getcwd() system call, which adds less overhead than a system-wide
> LD_PRELOAD.

I think the point here was with applications that shipped with their
own copies of libc5 (I think matlab does this).  binary-patching is
of course still an option. :-)

Anyways, we're going to continue shipping with libgetcwd.so so people
can choose how to solve/work-around this problem.

/assar