Jessie Frazelle • 2/17/2019

LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve

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This article is a deep dive into the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, explaining how it allows developers to override library functions. The author shares their enthusiasm for the tool, recounts community examples from Twitter, and humorously details a 'mad science' project called 'kernelless' that proposes offloading system calls to the cloud using LD_PRELOAD.

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