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.
pjmlp|4 months ago
Still quite relevant when security and host stability matters, though.
generichuman|4 months ago
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.
Ericson2314|4 months ago