Shared Object Filters

Rod Evans, October 22, 2004

Filters are a class of shared objects that are available with the Solaris OS. These objects allow for the redirection of symbol bindings at runtime. They have been employed to provide standards interfaces and to allow the selection of optimized function implementations at runtime. For those of you unfamiliar with filters, here's an introduction, plus a glimpse of some new techniques available with Solaris 10.