RW> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:24:23 -0500 (EST)
RW> From: Robert Watson
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RW> The one thing that turns me off to this scheme is that I'd
RW> like it if we could find a way to represent this using solely
RW> existing BSD/UNIX kernel primitives (mmap, et al) and
RW> userspace, rather than adding special-purpose system calls
RW> that complicated various code paths, and that aren't
RW> portable.
Would rtld-elf/rtld.c:map_object() be a reasonable place to add
hooks for speaking with a daemon that does the actual tracking
work? True, the daemon might die... in which case rtld probably
should revert to "traditional" behavior rather than refusing to
load a binary.
Eddy
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