is LD_PRELOAD available in cygwin?

[Brian Dessent]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Sorry, Brian, but this isn't correct.  LD_PRELOAD has been available for
> Cygwin for a while.
> 
> It's not 100% like linux but it is close.  You can only override cygwin
> functions with it but that should work for open().  If this isn't working
> under cygwin, I'd suspect function decorations are not right, i.e., the
> open() function name being trapped doesn't look the same as the open in
> cygwin1.dll.
> 
> ...either that or LD_PRELOAD is broken.  I haven't played with it for a
> while.

Oh, excellent.  I knew there were some cases of the LD_* things being
supported (e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the context of dlopen) but I didn't
know this was one of them as well.

Brian

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