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Re: [PATCH] Re: Changed shared library loading strategy on PPC,why?
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> At 13:42 25.07.2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
>>
>> > At 08:34 25.07.2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> >>Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 24, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Btw. Olaf is running a complete build of glibc and will tell the
>> >> >> results later, but I'm convinced that this fixes the problems we
>> >> >> encountered.
>> >> >
>> >> > I did a fresh build of binutils , glibc and rpm with the patch applied
>> >> > and it works now.
>> >>
>> >>Since Geoff said previously for both patches:
>> >>
>> >> > Anyway, all the patches look fine to me. It's only a heuristic,
>> >> > it's known to break for various reasons, the important thing is that
>> >> > it works most of the time.
>> >>
>> >>I'm going to commit this now since this version works better,
>> >
>> > Thanks. Is there a way to create a testcase for static binaries
>> > accessing a shared lib?
>>
>>Just build a static binary that uses e.g. getpwuid. Feel free to send
>>patches,
>
> I mean a selfcontained example without using any of the usual shared
> libs. It nakes me wonder such a testcase isn't already in glibc
> anyway. At which point did rpm fail? Opening the shared lib? Did the
> getpwuid return wrong results?
rpm failed mmapping libnss_files.so and therefore getpwuid failed,
Andreas
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