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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Old suggestion for a different trash can
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-20 0:14:20
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:40 pm, Manuel Arriaga wrote:
> Hi Waldo,
>
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 20:38, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Sounds good. It should be noted though that just setting LD_PRELOAD is
> > not an option since that typically breaks a handfull of applications. (We
> > tried it with startup notification)
>
> I never experienced any problems, except with the apps in the procps
> package (and only another user described this problem). Can you give me any
> hints as to what might go wrong when LD_PRELOAD is set?

The application that gets loaded might be incompatible with the library that 
gets loaded. This happens when the application uses a different C-lib or a 
different executable format for example. (Do you remember a.out?)

So you will get bugreports like "my proprietary xyz application for 
calculating mass-density of collapsing starts doesn't work under KDE" because 
this application still uses libc0.67 or something equally obscure.

Cheers,
Waldo

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