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Re: coping with PT_PHDR not being in loaded segment


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> I think I agree with Ian's analysis here.  The current libc (elf/dl-load.c)
> still behaves the way he described for 2.0.7.  If the phdr is not visible
> in the loaded image, then I think we should make a malloc'd copy to save in
> the l_phdr pointer.

I've made appropriate changes now.  They'll be in 2.1.1pre3.  But I
nevertheless think that adding the phdr to a segment is a good idea.
The phdr is always needed so why not load it?

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