145 lines
4.9 KiB
Groff
145 lines
4.9 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: rtld.1,v 1.1 1995/06/30 12:23:10 pk Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg.
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.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
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.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
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.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
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.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
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.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.Dd June 27, 1995
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.Dt RTLD 1
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.Os NetBSD
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ld.so
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.Nd run-time link-editor
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a self-contained, position independent program image providing run-time
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support for loading and link-editing shared objects into a process'
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address space. It uses the data structures
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.Po
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see
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.Xr link 5
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.Pc
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contained within dynamically linked programs to determine which shared
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libraries are needed and loads them at a convenient virtual address
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using the
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.Xr mmap 2
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system call.
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.Pp
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After all shared libraries have been succesfully loaded,
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.Nm
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proceeds to resolve external references from both the main program and
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all objects loaded. A mechanism is provided for initialisation routines
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to be called, on a per-object basis, giving a shared object an opportunity
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to perfrom any extra set-up, before execution of the program proper begins.
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This is useful for C++ libraries that contain static constrictors.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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is itself a shared object that is initially loaded by the startup module
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.Em crt0 .
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Since
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.Xr a.out 5
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formats do not provide easy access to the file header from within a running
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process,
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.Em crt0
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uses the special symbol
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.Va _DYNAMIC
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to determine whether a program is in fact dynamically linked or not. Whenever
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the linker
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.Xr ld 1
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has relocated this symbol to a location other then 0,
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.Em crt0
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assumes the services of
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.Nm
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are needed
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.Po
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see
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.Xr link 5
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for details
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.Pc \&.
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.Em crt0
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passes control to
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.Nm
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\&'s entry point before the program's
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.Fn main
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routine is called. Thus,
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.Nm
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can complete the link-editing process before the dynamic program calls upon
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services of any dynamic library.
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.Pp
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To quickly locate the required shared objects in the filesystem,
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.Nm
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may use a
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.Dq hints
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file, prepared by the
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.Xr ldconfig 8
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utility, in which the full path specification of the shared objects can be
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looked up by hashing on the 3-tuple
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.Ao
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library-name, major-version-number, minor-version-number
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.Ac \&.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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recognises a number of environment variables that can be used to modify
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its behaviour as follows:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width "LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS"
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.It Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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A colon separated list of directories, overriding the default search path
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for shared libraries.
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.It Ev LD_WARN_NON_PURE_CODE
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When set, issue a warning whenever a link-editing operation requires
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modification of the text segment of some loaded object. This is usually
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indicative of an incorrectly built library.
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.It Ev LD_SUPPRESS_WARNINGS
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When set, no warning messages of any kind are issued. Normally, a warning
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is given if satisfactorily versioned library could not be found.
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.It Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
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When set, causes
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.Nm
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to exit after loading the shared objects and printing a summary which includes
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the absolute pathnames of all objects, to standard output.
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.It Ev LD_NO_INTERN_SEARCH
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When set,
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.Nm
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does not process any internal search paths that were recorded in the
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executable.
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.It Ev LD_NOSTD_PATH
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When set, do not include a set of built-in standard directory paths for
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searching. This might be useful when running on a system with a completely
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non-standard filesystem layout.
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.El
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.Pp
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.Sh FILES
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/var/run/ld.so.hints
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.Pp
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ld 1
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.Xr ldconfig 8
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.Xr link 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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The shared library model employed first appeared in SunOS 4.0
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