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Pass me the pointy hat with the extra sequins. Just a moment, while I get

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it to sit right...

The __error() hack gave out the wrong address.  It returned the address of
errno in ld.so instead of the address of errno in the main program.  Oops.

The hack is now correct, just in time to be obsoleted by elf.
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Stephen McKay 1998-08-22 15:51:41 +00:00
parent 9e80236560
commit 166f84746d
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=38480
1 changed files with 20 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
* (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
* THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*
* $Id: rtld.c,v 1.54 1998/06/07 03:53:06 brian Exp $
* $Id: rtld.c,v 1.55 1998/06/21 14:22:29 mckay Exp $
*/
#include <sys/param.h>
@ -1605,6 +1605,8 @@ sym_addr(name)
}
static int *p_errno; /* Pointer to errno variable in main program. */
/*
* Help old a.out binaries that are broken by the new errno macro. They
* can be missing __error() through no fault of their own. In particular,
@ -1625,6 +1627,21 @@ lookup_errno_hack(sym, src_map, real_def_only)
if (strcmp(sym, "___error") != 0)
return NULL;
/*
* Locate errno in the main program. If it's not there, NULL
* will be returned by our __error() substitute, and a core dump
* will follow. That's impossible, of course, since crt0.o always
* supplies errno.
*/
smp = NULL;
np = lookup("_errno", &smp, 1);
if (np != NULL && smp != NULL) {
p_errno = (int *)(smp->som_addr + np->nz_value);
#ifdef DEBUG
xprintf(" HACK: _errno at %p in %s\n", p_errno, smp->som_path);
#endif
}
/*
* Specifically find the ld.so link map because most routines
* skip over it during normal operation.
@ -1634,10 +1651,7 @@ lookup_errno_hack(sym, src_map, real_def_only)
break;
/*
* Actually, ld.so uses errno via the new macro, so it has a copy
* of __error() lying around. The really neat but obscure hack
* is to just use that one, but to be really clear about what
* is going on, we use an explicit __error() substitute.
* Find our __error() substitute stashed here in ld.so.
*/
np = lookup("___error_unthreaded_hack", &smp, real_def_only);
if (np != NULL)
@ -1661,7 +1675,7 @@ lookup_errno_hack(sym, src_map, real_def_only)
int *
__error_unthreaded_hack()
{
return &errno;
return p_errno;
}