Re: BUG inside glibc [Function: dlopen dlgetsym] // Linux, Mandrake 8 // glibc-2.2.2-5mdk

[Andreas Jaeger]

Christian Groove <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear sirs
>
> i had to find out, that the dll-functions does not work properly
> with regard to the UNIX98 standard !
>
>       dlopen(NULL, RTLD_GLOBAL);
>
> would normally return an handle, that permits the following
> dllsym function:
>
>       dlsym(dlHandle, "myfunction" ) ;
>
> to retrieve the adress of the function, that resides in the
> actual adress space. Also a 
>
>       dlopen(argv[0], RTLD_GLOBAL)
>
> fails to return a usable handle !! This is not conform to
> the UNIX98 standard, that provides exactly this.
>
> If i have some time, i may take a look into the code, but i guess
> we need somebody with ELF-Knowhow ..
>
> Trusting to hear from you soon
> Groovy

Please send a self contained minimal example that shows this bug,

Andreas
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