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Re: [PATCH] elf: Remove pldd (BZ#18035)
On 10/04/2019 17:41, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
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> On 10/04/2019 17:17, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> On 4/10/19 3:04 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> [...]
>> This requires python in base runtime, and might not be on a production
>> container instance.
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> Ok, the question I have is whether we want to make pldd still poke the loader
> internal data structures directly using /proc/<pid>/mem plus ptrace or if we
> can use a simplified version by parsing /proc/<pid>/maps (as lsof does).
Another possible caveat that came to my mind of coding pldd by poking on
loader internal data is it ties the pldd to installed glibc (meaning that
a new pldd version might fail on older glibc or vice-versa).