Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/08/03/03:13:21
Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:23:15AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
>> G?nther Jedenastik wrote:
>>
>>
>>> using g++ to compile a dll which overload's the open(); glibc system call.
>>> Using preload i want to load my own dll with my open(); function. using
>>> dlsym(); i try to load the glibc open(); function.
>>>
>> Cygwin does not use glibc. glibc is Linux-specifc.
>>
>>
>>> Q1: is LD_PRELOAD available in cygwin? if yes, any hint's why it's not
>>> working? (maybe some configuration problem or so, any hint would be
>>> helpfull)
>>> Q2: are there any alternative ways to preloading causing the same result?
>>>
>> No, LD_PRELOAD is an aspect of ELF dynamic loaders and is not available
>> on Windows. It's not something that Cygwin can provide since it is a
>> function provided by the program loader, i.e. the operating system.
>>
>
> Sorry, Brian, but this isn't correct. LD_PRELOAD has been available for
> Cygwin for a while.
>
> It's not 100% like linux but it is close. You can only override cygwin
> functions with it but that should work for open(). If this isn't working
> under cygwin, I'd suspect function decorations are not right, i.e., the
> open() function name being trapped doesn't look the same as the open in
> cygwin1.dll.
>
> ...either that or LD_PRELOAD is broken. I haven't played with it for a
> while.
>
> cgf
>
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>
well, preloading a library seems working, but the function decoration
makes problems, but i'm sure this is my fault
it would be great if anyone has a simple example for cygwin func decorations
never the less, thx for your help
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