Zlibc-0.9k - Transparent access to compressed files

From: Alain Knaff (alain.knaff_at_lll.lu)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:54:42 CST

A new zlibc release is available. This is mainly a maintainance
release. It's major benefit is compatibility with current glibc
version (workaround for the private __libc_open function, which should
cover most cases) and Solaris (tested on Solaris 10).

Zlibc allows executables to uncompress their datafiles on the fly. No
kernel patch, no recompilation of the executables and the libraries is
needed.

Zlibc (sources and RPM) can currently be found at the following
places:

 http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/zlibc
 http://zlibc.linux.lu/

and soon at:

 ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/compression

There is an zlibc mailing list at zlibc@tux.org. You may subscribe to
it by sending a message with 'subscribe' in its body or subject to
zlibc-request@tux.org, or by visiting the following URL:

 http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/zlibc

The sha1sums are:

ca8fd4ea0590e976ce6ca24fe8055946ef33e944 zlibc-0.9k-1.i586.rpm
e9fb3a65a7ac7b1210f5a0236720ffec55cac086 zlibc-0.9k.lsm
5ba50a4c26aca6275d5fd5b7b8357a42ad66b936 zlibc-0.9k.tar.gz

How it works:
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This package overrides the "open" function (and other similar system
call functions) of the C library. this package uses the LD_PRELOAD
variable to redirect the dynamic linker to use the relevant functions
of uncompress.o instead of the shared library.

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