Return full pathname in dl_iterate_phdr's dlpi_name, as Linux does
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Authored by emaste on Oct 9 2014, 8:15 PM.

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Linux man page currently states

The dlpi_name field is a null-terminated string giving the pathname from which the shared object was loaded.

It may be that they returned just the name when this was first implemented for FreeBSD.

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A use case in http://reviews.llvm.org/D5610

Looks like musl libc had the same discovery: http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2012/10/11/10

http://linux.die.net/man/3/dl_iterate_phdr

Committed in r272842

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 9 2014, 9:50 PM

emaste closed this revision.Oct 9 2014, 9:50 PM

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