just a few of them. This looks like it solves the recent
ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/lockdflt.c:55
failures seen by some applications such as JDK.
init and fini functions. Now the code is very careful to hold no
locks when calling these functions. Thus the dynamic linker cannot
be re-entered with a lock already held.
Remove the tolerance for recursive locking that I added in revision
1.2 of dllockinit.c. Recursive locking shouldn't happen any more.
Mozilla and JDK users: I'd appreciate confirmation that things still
work right (or at least the same) with these changes.
. add Xrs to hosts.equiv(5), auth.conf(5), services(5) to some pages
. sort Xrs in SEE ALSO sections
Patches based on PR: docs/15680
Submitted by: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
locking functions. If an application loads a shared object with
dlopen() and the shared object has an init function which requires
lazy binding, then _rtld_bind is called when the thread is already
inside the dynamic linker. This leads to a recursive acquisition
of the lock, which I was not expecting -- hence the assert failure.
This work-around makes the default locking functions handle recursive
locking. It is NOT the correct fix -- that should be implemented
at the generic locking level rather than in the default locking
functions. I will implement the correct fix in a future commit.
Since the dllockinit() interface will likely need to change, warn
about that in both the man page and the header file.
functions to be used by the dynamic linker. This can be called by
threads packages at start-up time. I will add the call to libc_r
soon.
Also add a default locking method that is used up until dllockinit()
is called. The default method works by blocking SIGVTALRM, SIGPROF,
and SIGALRM in critical sections. It is based on the observation
that most user-space threads packages implement thread preemption
with one of these signals (usually SIGVTALRM).
The dynamic linker has never been reentrant, but it became less
reentrant in revision 1.34 of "src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c".
Starting with that revision, multiple threads each doing lazy
binding could interfere with each other. The usual symptom was
that a symbol was falsely reported as undefined at start-up time.
It was rare but not unseen. This commit fixes it.
happened as it was working around problems elsewhere (ie: binutils/ld
not doing the right thing according to the ELF design). libcrypt has
been adjusted to not need the runtime -lmd. It's still not quite right
(ld is supposed to work damnit) but at least it doesn't impact all the
users of libcrypt in Marcel's cross-build model.
assumption that only getty processes can be managed. Describe the
SysV-like ability to keep arbitrary long-running processes alive
using a non-device first field in /etc/ttys.
PR: 12767
Submitted by: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
bptypes.h originally defined int32 to be of type long. This obviously
doesn't work on the Alpha. By defining int32 (and u_int32) in terms of
int32_t (and u_int32_t) it now is what it says it should be.
Two occurrences of 'unsigned int32' have been changed to 'u_int32' for
consistency.
Submitted by: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
libjava peeks into the dynamic linker's private Obj_Entry structures.
My recent changes introduced some new members near the front of
the structures, causing libjava to get the wrong fields. This commit
moves the new members toward the end of the structure so that the
layout of the portion that is relevant to JDK remains the same as
before.
I will work with the JDK porting team to see if we can come up with
a less fragile way for them to do what they need to do. I understand
the current approach was necessary in order to work around some
limitations of the dynamic linker. Maybe it's not necessary any
more.
PT_INTERP program header entry, to ensure that gdb always finds
the right dynamic linker.
Use obj->relocbase to simplify a few calculations where appropriate.
loaded separately by dlopen that have global symbols with identical
names. Viewing each dlopened object as a DAG which is linked by its
DT_NEEDED entries in the dynamic table, the search order is as
follows:
* If the referencing object was linked with -Bsymbolic, search it
internally.
* Search all dlopened DAGs containing the referencing object.
* Search all objects loaded at program start up.
* Search all objects which were dlopened() using the RTLD_GLOBAL
flag (which is now supported too).
The search terminates as soon as a strong definition is found.
Lacking that, the first weak definition is used.
These rules match those of Solaris, as best I could determine them
from its vague manual pages and the results of experiments I performed.
PR: misc/12438
violations in certain obscure cases involving failed dlopens. Many
thanks to Archie Cobbs for providing me with a good test case.
Eliminate a block that existed only to localize a declaration.
