Group: comp.os.linux.networking
From: begin.middle.end@gmail.com
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: glibc, glibc sockets

On Mar 12, 12:43=A0pm, David Schwartz wrote:
> On Mar 11, 9:20 pm, begin.middle....@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > [What I am trying to do is modify some socket functions in glibc and
> > install it, for a school class project].
>
> The socket functions are just very thin wrappers around kernel calls.
> If you want to trap/modify them, the best way is probably to do it in
> your own library. Google for 'LD_PRELOAD' and 'RTLD_NEXT'.

Thank you. I will explore that option.

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