Re: Dynamic linking in the kernel

[David Miller]

From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:43:27 +0100

> David Miller wrote:
> 
>> In order to implement this the kernel would have to also save a copy
>> of all pieces of the processes's environment and compare all of the
>> environment variable settings on every execution.  This would be
>> needed to handle things like LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and LD_DEBUG
>> as just three examples.
> 
> Fairly simple:
> 
> * parsed per-module data is cached by its inode id
> * cached data that can be influenced by LD_PRELOAD/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>   (eg. mapping of library names to actual filenames or inode-id's)
>   is cached on hash of these variables plus inode-id

Feel free to implement this and show us the numbers.

I am not as confident as you :-)
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