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@@ -348,6 +348,35 @@ Disadvantage is that every program using this needs to be patched.
This is used in `[LLVM]/lib/Support/Unix/Path.inc`.
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2013-11-10
+
+ <mjt> Hello. Does hurd have /proc/self/exe equivalent, to "re-exec myself"
+ ?
+ <youpi> no, only argv[0]
+ <mjt> busybox uses /proc/self/exe by default to re-exec itself when running
+ one of its applets, or failing that, tries to find it in $PATH. I guess
+ it doesn't work on hurd... :)
+ <mjt> and argv0 is unreliable
+ <youpi> some discussion on the hurd wiki talks about using Dl_info DLInfo
+ <youpi> which contains DLInfo.dli_fname
+ <youpi> err, I mean, callling dladdr(&main, &DLInfo);
+ <youpi> this is kernel-agnostic, provided one uses glibc
+ <mjt> um. -ldl. nice for static linking
+ <mjt> gcc t.c -ldl -static
+ <mjt> ./a.out
+ <mjt> fname=AVA� �j
+ <mjt> bah :)
+ <mjt> (it just prints dli_fname)
+ <teythoon> :/
+ <youpi> ah, yes, that won't work with static linking
+ <teythoon> fixing /proc/self is on my todo list, it shouldn't be too hard
+ <youpi> since in that case it's the exec server which sets the process up,
+ not dl.so
+ <teythoon> but we do not have the exe link either
+ <mjt> (the above test run was on linux not on hurd, fwiw_
+ <mjt> )
+
+
# `/proc/[PID]/fd/`
## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-24
@@ -502,6 +531,23 @@ Also used in `[GCC]/intl/relocatable.c`:`find_shared_library_fullname` for
<camm`> thanks
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-22
+
+ <ignaker> i'm trying to implement proc/maps
+ <ignaker> actually I can't well evaluate complexity of tasks. However, I
+ appreciate your comments
+ <braunr> the complexity can be roughly estimated from the number of
+ components involved
+ <braunr> proc/maps involves procfs, ports, virtual memory, and file systems
+ <braunr> the naive implementation would merely be associating names to
+ memory objects, and why not, but a more complete one would go ask file
+ system servers about them
+ <braunr> perhaps more
+ <braunr> although personally i'd go for the naive one because less
+ dependencies usually means better reliability
+ <braunr> something similar to task_set_name could do the job
+
+
# `/proc/[PID]/mem`
Needed by glibc's `pldd` tool (commit