How does the SRB Preload Library work?
The SRB Preload Library provides another mechanism (aside from SRB Gateways) to access the SRB Global Namespace without any modification/re-compilation of the application. The SRB Preload Library is supported on Linux and most UNIX operating systems. The respective operating system redirects system calls from ANY user-space (not kernel-space) application to the Preload Library, which in-turn redirects these calls to the SRB Global Namespace and hence to an SRB Resource. The Preload Library will only redirect system calls that reference a certain prefix (by default /srb) so that any calls to the local file system will be executed as fast as they always were.
