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Using the Innotek Libc pathrewrite function

When porting application from unix flavours you might run into the problem that some parts are hardcoded into the application, most famous is ofcourse /etc.

Libc provides a interface to work around these problems without completely rewriting the application, and thus easying the maintenance for the porter.

In this article I'll try to outline the posibilities from what I used myself and will give a example