Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 13:06:24 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: Preliminary ELF prebinding patches available. Message-ID: <20030526130537.U40030-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20030525202140.Y86964@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > What are the major reasons for not editing the executable in your > > opinion? > > Besides it not working? It is not possible for rtld-elf to access > the section header, let alone additional section data in a clean manner. > Furthermore, rtld-elf is not provided with a valid file handle for the > main executable so hacks to access section data of libraries won't > actually work for the main executable. > > I ran around in circles until I'd figured all this out. > but you could do this in the linker instead of rtld-elf, no? > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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