It is possible to have a dynamic environment without dynamic linking, that is how old UNIXes did it in the past via OS IPC, nowadays D-BUS as well, the problem then becomes the higher resource consumption when every little service is a process being started, and talked via IPC instead of a jump call.
Still quite relevant when security and host stability matters, though.
That doesn't give you independence from the libc, does it? By extension you lose distro-independence too (not sure if Detour supports musl-based ones, need to run tests).
Agree that IPC will be more secure and stable though.
I imagine Detour is mostly targeting closed source projects trying to run on as many distros as possible.
It is possible to have a dynamic environment without dynamic linking, that is how old UNIXes did it in the past via OS IPC, nowadays D-BUS as well, the problem then becomes the higher resource consumption when every little service is a process being started, and talked via IPC instead of a jump call.
Still quite relevant when security and host stability matters, though.
That doesn't give you independence from the libc, does it? By extension you lose distro-independence too (not sure if Detour supports musl-based ones, need to run tests).
Agree that IPC will be more secure and stable though.
I imagine Detour is mostly targeting closed source projects trying to run on as many distros as possible.
No UNIX has independence from the libc, Linux is the exception to the UNIX rule that libc is the OS API, traditionally syscalls aren't ABI stable.
This approach isn't portable to other UNIX like platforms.
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Nest. This reminds of the problem of wishing INTERP supported $ORIGIN.