vector. Now it is called the "symbol caching" vector. This was made
possible and unconfusing by other changes that allowed me to localize
everything having to do with the caching vector in the function
reloc_map().
Switched to alloca() for allocating the caching vector, and eliminated
the special mmap-based allocation routines. Although this was motivated
by performance reasons, it led to significant simplification of the
code, and made it possible to confine the symbol caching code to the
single function reloc_map().
Got rid of the unnecessary and inefficient division loop at the
beginning of rtld().
Reduced the number of calls to getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") to just 1, on
suggestion from <davidg@root.com>.
Added breaks out of the relocation loops when the relocation address is
found to be 0. A relocation address of 0 is caused by an unused
relocation entry. Unused relocation entries are caused by linking a
shared object with the "-Bsymbolic" switch. The runtime linker itself
is linked that way, and the last 40% of its relocation entries are
unused. Thus, breaking out of the loop on the first such entry is a
performance win when ld.so relocates itself. As a side benefit, it
permits removing a test from md_relocate_simple() in
../i386/md-static-funcs.c.
Unused relocation entries in other shared objects (linked with
"-Bsymbolic") caused even bigger problems in previous versions of the
runtime linker. The runtime linker interpreted the unused entries as if
they were valid. That caused it to perform repeated relocations of the
first byte of the shared object. In order to do that, it had to remap
the text segment writable. Breaking out of the loop on the first unused
relocation entry solves that.
Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
program parses the /etc/netgroup file into netgroup.byuser and netgroup.byhost
format for NIS.
I used hash tables to store the initial netgroup data in memory and to
construct the 'reverse' netgroup output. It seems just as fast as the
SunOS revnetgroup, which is surprising considering this is my first
attempt at using hash tables in a real application. :)
Note that I canibalized a large chunk of getnetgrent.c to save myself
from having to write my own netgroup parsing functions.
Implemented symbol memorizing to reduce the number of calls to lookup(),
making relocation go faster. While relocating a given shared object,
the dynamic linker maintains a memorizing vector that is directly
indexed by the symbol number in the relocation entry. The first time a
given symbol is looked up, the memorizing vector is filled in with a
pointer to the symbol table entry, and a pointer to the so_map of the
shared object in which the symbol was defined. On subsequent uses of
the same symbol, that information is retrieved directly from the
memorizing vector, without calling lookup() again.
A symbol that is referenced in a relocation entry is typically
referenced in many relocation entries, so this memorizing reduces the
number of calls to lookup() dramatically. The overall improvement in
the speed of dynamic linking is also dramatic -- as much as a factor of
three for programs that use many shared libaries.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com "John Polstra"
Kerberos obtains a network address for the local host from the routing
tables and uses it consistently for all Kerberos transactions. This ensures
that packets only leave the *authenticated* interface. Clients who open
and use their own sockets for encrypted or authenticated correspondance
to kerberos services should bind their sockets to the same address as that
used by kerberos. krb_get_local_addr() and krb_bind_local_addr() allow
clients to obtain the local address or bind a socket to the local address
used by Kerberos respectively.
Reviewed by: Mark Murray <markm>, Garrett Wollman <wollman>
Obtained from: concept by Dieter Dworkin Muller <dworkin@village.org>
shared library. Formerly, the message looked like this:
ld.so: run: libjdp1.so.1.0: Undefined error: 0
The new message looks like this:
ld.so: run: Can't find shared library "libjdp1.so.1.0"
(Where "run" is the name of the program being executed.)
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
symbols.
An easy example to see this is to develop an X program which links
against Xt, but doesn't add -lX11 to the link line. It will link fine,
but cause run-time errors by ld.so because of missing symbols used by Xt
defined in X11. This patch makes the errors more readable.
Submitted by: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
were chopped off of the function call and garbage was passed instead.
The solution involves making some variable globals as well as fixing the
call to have all the arguments.
specified in the top level Makefiles.
Previously I missed dozens of Makefiles that skip the install after
using `cmp -s' to decide that the install isn't necessary.
I get on this topic will go straight to /dev/null. This is absolutely the
last word on this topic you'll see from me. Too much time has already been
wasted.
on dlclose. Also correctly call constructors and destructors for libraries
linked with /usr/lib/c++rt0.o.
Change interpretation of dlopen manpage to call _init() rather than init()
for dlopened objects.
Change c++rt0.o to avoid using atexit to call destructors, allowing dlclose to
call destructors when an object is unloaded.
Change interface between crt0 and ld.so to allow crt0 to call a function on
exit to call destructors for shared libraries explicitly.
These changes are backwards compatible. Old binaries will work with the new
ld.so and new binaries will work with the old ld.so. A version number has
been introduced in the crt0-ld.so interface to allow for future changes.
Reviewed by: GAWollman, Craig Struble <cstruble@singularity.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
causes some clients that do not support linemode to mis-interpret the return
key (i.e. double returns).
The fix is to only do the state check for binary options if linemode will
be used.
Closes PR#505.
Submitted by: Charles Henrich
