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diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn index 018db7b2..8ac48a59 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -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 |