Linux/doors add-on

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de>]

Hello,

I have made a doors add-on for glibc 2.0.95 from the sources at
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/tor/doors/.

I have put the door client functions into libc, so that we could use the door
functions for communication with nscd and for RPC clients. You could find my
add-on on http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/

For the kernel, you need the kernel module from the original sources. There is
a little patch for 2.1.1xx, which exports the missing functions. I don't know,
if it works with linux 2.0.

I have one problem: __door_call is in libc. In libdoor, we have the "official"
function door_call. How could I make this function a weak alias to the
libc version, like Sun has made it in Solaris 2.6 ?

The next problem is my libdb 1.85 add-on for glibc 2.1. In the moment, the 
libdb.so link to libdb.so.3 is overwritten from the libdb add-on. How could I
tell the add-on, not to create such a link ?

  Thorsten

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