alt Hacker NewsEach program having its own loader is an anti pattern. Such a requirement is overkill. You can have a single loader that supports everything on the system.
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HexDecOctBin • today at 8:45 AM
Unfortunately, Glibc and loader are linked together intrinsically in the Linux ecosystem. So, if you want to be able to launch a program reliably, shipping your own loader and libc might actually be the only way.
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kazinator • today at 5:49 PM
If I had to choose between 16 dockers, or 16 processes with different ld.so, guess what I'm choosing ...
Not with NixOS. ld.so is tied to a version of glibc, in ways that can be subtly incompatible. And nixos can have multiple glibc version installed on a single machine.
Besides, it allows for upgrades/downgrades to be done in a way that's much less error-prone.