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From: Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...> - 2004-03-18 09:19:55
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I just got a chance to download and look at the glibc 2.3.3/FC2 sources, > which want to see the AT_SYSINFO_EHDR entry. It pretty clearly expects > to see a prelinked, premapped .so file containing the vsyscall > entrypoint. If we want to put this near the top of the client address > space, then we will need to be able to generate one of these with > different linked addresses, depending on where it has been placed. This > seems like too much hard work to me. > > The other options I can see are: [snip] I only partly understand this thread, but reading it I'm thinking: this all sounds very complicated for something that only(?) affects FC2... can we avoid doing anything, or do something simple? It makes me uncomfortable every time we have to build in some special handling for a particular version of a library or whatever. Just an observation. N |