Re: [PATCH] ld.so.8: Document LD_AUDIT

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Hi Petr,

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:20:31PM -0500, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > +.TP
>> > +.B LD_AUDIT
>> > +(glibc since 2.4)
>> > +A colon-separated list of additional,
>>
>> Why the word "additional" here?
>
> Copy'n'paste oversight, sorry.

No problem.\

>> > user-specified, ELF shared libraries
>>
>> The word "libraries" is interesting.  The glibc sources imply that
>> multiple auditing libraries is supported, but a brief play with this
>> led to crashes for me.  (That could easily be because I'm doing things
>> wrong.)  Did you try this, or see an example anywhere?
>
> I have not tested this, just assumed from the code.

I did some testing on Solaris, which did what I would have expected.
But GNU's API fails for th same situation.  I filed
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9733

> Maybe 'shared
> objects' would be more appropriate, too?

Changed.

As you will have seen already,  I wrote an rtld-audit(7) page
describing the API, so I've trimmed this patch somewhat (basically I
removed the list of functions in the API, replacing it with a pointer
to the new page).

[...]

> Acked-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Michael


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