On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 02:17:01PM +0100, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Hendrik Boom writes:
> >Just linking isn't enough, unless there's something about the loading
> >process that I don't know. (Maybe C++ has something special for module
> >initialization?)
>
> No, nothing that special.
>
> >But if an application is linked with libsystemd, it is likely to call one
> >of the libsystemd functions. If so, putting a printf("Hello world!") into
> >that function would suffice.
>
> OK, so what makes libsystemd different from libc, which comes from the same
> source? libc is stored in the same directory on the same debian servers...

It is a matter of trust, not of what is technically feasible. Does one
trust the libc developers more than the libsystemd developers?

-- hendrik