[PATCH][v2] Add dynamic linker support for $EXEC_ORIGIN.
Benjamin Peterson
bp@benjamin.pe
Wed Oct 25 06:44:00 GMT 2017
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017, at 01:13, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 24 2017, Brooks Moses <bmoses@google.com> wrote:
>
> > (Quick summary: $EXEC_ORIGIN in rpaths is like $ORIGIN, but it expands
> > to the executable's path as passed to execve(), rather than resolving
> > symlinks in the executable's path as $ORIGIN does.)
>
> I think the name is confusing, since both $EXEC_ORIGIN and $ORIGIN
> expand to the origin of the executable.
I suppose the $EXEC_ORIGIN token takes its name from the elf auxiliary
vector, AT_EXECFN, it's derived from.
Would $SYMBOLIC_ORIGIN be bettter?
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