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[PATCH] rtld.c: do_preload(): print the reason why preloading failed
- From: Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:34:30 +0200
- Subject: [PATCH] rtld.c: do_preload(): print the reason why preloading failed
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
hi all, the error message for LD_PRELOAD failure could trivially be
improved to be more helpful, please see attached patch.
note that i don't have any copyright assignment currently, hope it's not
needed for such a trivial patch.
ChangeLog:
2013-10-07 Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
* elf/rtld.c: do_preload(): print the reason why preloading failed
>From 0099055c5ba62b97a0d48aa0d5cab33323f58dea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 00:42:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] rtld.c: do_preload(): print the reason why preloading failed
---
elf/rtld.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/elf/rtld.c b/elf/rtld.c
index 91da88c..51682f2 100644
--- a/elf/rtld.c
+++ b/elf/rtld.c
@@ -816,8 +816,8 @@ do_preload (char *fname, struct link_map *main_map, const char *where)
if (__builtin_expect (err_str != NULL, 0))
{
_dl_error_printf ("\
-ERROR: ld.so: object '%s' from %s cannot be preloaded: ignored.\n",
- fname, where);
+ERROR: ld.so: object '%s' from %s cannot be preloaded (%s): ignored.\n",
+ fname, where, err_str);
/* No need to call free, this is still before
the libc's malloc is used. */
}
--
1.8.3.1