[Gluster-users] booster

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:05 +0530
Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart at gluster.com> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:40:03 +0530 Shehjar Tikoo
> > <shehjart at gluster.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> We only tried to run some bash scripts with preloaded
> >>> booster...
> >>> 
> >> Do you mean the scripts contained commands with LD_PRELOADed 
> >> booster? Or were you trying to run bash with LD_PRELOADed
> >> booster?
> >> 
> >> The second scenario will not work at this point.
> >> 
> >> Thanks -Shehjar
> > 
> > Oh, that's bad news. We tried to PRELOAD booster in front of bash
> > (implicit, called the bash-script with LD_PRELOADED). Is this a
> > general problem or a not-yet-implemented feature?
> > 
> 
> A general problem, I'd say. The last time, i.e. when we revamped
> booster, we tried running with bash but there was some clash with bash
> internals.
> 
> We havent done anything special to fix the problem since then because:
> 
> 1. it requires changes deep inside GlusterFS and;
> 
> 2. running bash wasnt a very useful scenario when the LD_PRELOAD
> variable can be added for the bash environment as a whole. For eg.
> if you just do "export LD_PRELOAD=<blah>" on the command line, you can
> actually have every program started from that shell use booster.
> 
> -Shehjar

Well, how about other interpreters like sh,csh,perl,python,php,name-one ?
There are tons of perl-applications out there, we use some, too.
Is the problem only linked to bash?

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Regards,
Stephan