From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 18:12:09 +0200 From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <9B2C4ECD-E92C-4C76-8678-74E26DBCD1CD@yahoo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Linker and duplicate symbols Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9c608f96-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 uses the first one it finds, so the order matters. its not unusual for programs to override certain library function by providing ther own version and putting them first in the object file list. this works only when the function you want to replace sits alone in his own object file (the smallest unit of linkage). the kernel does link in some standard libc functions, but obviously not the ones attempting syscalls :) -- cinap