> But if the shared library is installed, you can
> instead use your own line-buffer function:
>
> line-buffer()
> {
> LD_PRELOAD=/t/linebuf.so "$@"
> }
>
> but that doesn't expand the command name when it's an alias or function.
It actually works for functions. To support aliases, you can do
preload() {
local so cmd
so=$1
cmd=$2
shift 2
case x`type -t "$cmd"` in
xalias) eval LD_PRELOAD=\$so $cmd \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ;;
*) LD_PRELOAD=$so "$cmd" "$@" ;;
esac
}
alias line-buffer='preload /t/linebuf.so'
Paolo
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