[PATCH][BZ 17251] Calculate RPATH $ORIGIN from absolute path

[Florian Weimer]

On 08/12/2014 06:16 PM, Brennan Shacklett wrote:
> I used the implementation of dl_realpath from sysdeps/tile/dl-runtime.c as the
> generic implementation, and extended it with lstat and readlink in the linux
> version. This means the bug is still present on other systems than linux (the
> generic implementation only returns an absolute path, it doesn't do anything
> with symlinks), but if there is a way to get the generic version to follow
> symlinks on all systems please let me know.

You use PATH_MAX in the generic code which is, I believe, not available 
on Hurd.

I'm also not sure if the current behavior is buggy.  Maybe it does not 
compose well, but in some scenarios, it is exactly what is needed. 
Applying this patch could break existing programs.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security