From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Brennan Shacklett <bpshacklett@gmail.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ 17251] Calculate RPATH $ORIGIN from absolute path
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150302072105.GZ19363@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407860209-21797-1-git-send-email-bpshacklett@gmail.com>
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On 12 Aug 2014 09:16, Brennan Shacklett wrote:
> Bug 17251 deals with (what I believe is) the incorrect calculation of $ORIGIN
> for shared libraries. Currently $ORIGIN is calculated correctly for executables
> on linux, because readlink is called on /proc/self/exe, which means the
> resulting path is absolute and has no symlinks.
i'm not sure this behavior is even correct (see below), but at the same time,
i'm not sure there's a reasonable way to implement the correct behavior.
> Shared libraries with relative paths on the other hand are based
> off of appending the name / path of the library to the current working
> directory, which means if the library is a symlink, it is not followed, which
> breaks RPATH $ORIGIN in the following scenario:
using the current working directory to fill in $ORIGIN surely is incorrect. the
ELF spec states:
When the dynamic linker loads an object that uses $ORIGIN, it must calculate
the pathname of the directory containing the object.
which means i'm not sure that's justification for doing a full path resolution.
if the library is located in ~/, then $ORIGIN inside that lib means it should
search in ~/ (and not wherever getcwd returns). although the spec does provide
enough wiggle room to say either implementation is conforming ...
you do have a case that $ORIGIN should behave the same regardless of the object
using it (the main executable or a shared lib). i wonder if the $ORIGIN usage
in the main ELF breaks if you utilize the ld.so directly if it's utilizing the
/proc/self/exe symlink ...
$ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /bin/sh
sh-4.3$ ls -l /proc/$$/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vapier users 0 Mar 2 02:19 /proc/8304/exe -> /lib64/ld-2.21.so
-mike
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-12 16:18 Brennan Shacklett
2014-08-26 19:28 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-09-02 18:58 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-09-02 20:27 ` Joseph S. Myers
2014-09-02 22:35 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-09-18 7:17 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-09-24 3:09 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-10-01 7:28 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-10-06 16:18 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-10-26 19:44 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-11-03 23:31 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-11-12 23:34 ` Brennan Shacklett
2014-12-12 10:44 ` Florian Weimer
2015-01-13 23:58 ` Brennan Shacklett
2015-03-02 7:21 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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