On 18 Nov 2016 08:25, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 11/17/2016 09:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > for documenting the Elf{32,64}_Nhdr structure,
> > the sections/segments that contain notes, and how to interpret them. I've
> > been lazy and only included the GNU extensions here,
>
> Any chance you include the non-GNU stuff also? Or, failing that,
> some clear statements at appropriate points about what is not
> documented.
the trouble i was running into is that the man pages says it documents
the elf.h header, but the one installed by glibc doesn't have defines
for all the non-GNU stuff. so if i put in details about the FreeBSD
namespace, it'll have defines like NT_FREEBSD_THRMISC. none of those
show up in the current elf.h though so people will get errors.
i'm fine with that though if you are.
> > +Note sections contain a series of notes (see the structs below).
> > +Each note is followed by the name field (whose length is defined in
> > +\fIn_namesz\fR) and then by the desc field (whose length is defined in
> > +\fIn_descsz\fR).
>
> I think this could be a little clearer. I presume that the way things look is
>
> struct {} Nhdr
> <name>\0
> <desc>\0
>
> ?
i don't think desc is NUL terminated, but otherwise, yes.
> Maybe shos something like that in the text?
i couldn't find any precedent to copy :). i didn't want to put it into
the struct def since those fields aren't in the struct, they're implicit
in memory.
how about i put a small snippet of C that'd show how to extract things ?
void *memory, *name, *desc;
Elf64_Nhdr *note, *next_note;
note = memory;
name = note->n_namesz == 0 ? NULL : memory + sizeof(*note);
desc = note->n_descsz == 0 ? NULL : name + note->n_namesz;
next_note = memory + sizeof(*note) + note->n_namesz + note->n_descsz;
> > +Keep in mind that the interpretation of
> > +.I n_type
> > +depends on the namespace defined by the
> > +.I n_namesz
> > +field.
> > +After, of course, whether the ELF image has been determined to be a core.
>
> I can't understand that last sentence...
i meant that the namespaces are for non-core files, but i'll double check
that is the case.
i snipped all the comments that i'll integrate so i don't have to just
keep saying "OK" over and over :).
-mike
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