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Diffstat (limited to 'src/stdbuf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/stdbuf.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/stdbuf.c b/src/stdbuf.c index 270881bf5..c648fc5d0 100644 --- a/src/stdbuf.c +++ b/src/stdbuf.c @@ -195,7 +195,17 @@ set_LD_PRELOAD (void) However we want the lookup done for the exec'd command not stdbuf. Since we don't link against libstdbuf.so add it to PKGLIBEXECDIR - rather than to LIBDIR. */ + rather than to LIBDIR. + + Note we could add "" as the penultimate item in the following list + to enable searching for libstdbuf.so in the default system lib paths. + However that would not indicate an error if libstdbuf.so was not found. + Also while this could support auto selecting the right arch in a multilib + environment, what we really want is to auto select based on the arch of the + command being run, rather than that of stdbuf itself. This is currently + not supported due to the unusual need for controlling the stdio buffering + of programs that are a different architecture to the default on the + system (and that of stdbuf itself). */ char const *const search_path[] = { program_path, PKGLIBEXECDIR, |