On: Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil

[mnw21cam]

Indeed. But ld.so runs in the context of the process that is starting up, so if it doesn't have access to anything, it can't.

[AstralStorm → mnw21cam]

It doesn't actually have to, but you'd need a fun bit of stub code in place of unloaded function pointers etc.