Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:01:17 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apples linking Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311271752250.26524-100000@a.mx.ict1.everquick.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031127101515.30532A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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RW> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:24:23 -0500 (EST)
RW> From: Robert Watson
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RW> The one thing that turns me off to this scheme is that I'd
RW> like it if we could find a way to represent this using solely
RW> existing BSD/UNIX kernel primitives (mmap, et al) and
RW> userspace, rather than adding special-purpose system calls
RW> that complicated various code paths, and that aren't
RW> portable.
Would rtld-elf/rtld.c:map_object() be a reasonable place to add
hooks for speaking with a daemon that does the actual tracking
work? True, the daemon might die... in which case rtld probably
should revert to "traditional" behavior rather than refusing to
load a binary.
Eddy
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