From: mzpqnxow <musl@mzpqnxow.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Question about setting argv[0] when manually using dynamic linker
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 11:00:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+qPFcL4JzAbNXiL_0oFhTBfAH3+gBYfpeyc0Ved+ZmYMG1D=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170517070115.GL6320@example.net>
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Is there any reason you want to avoid simply statically linking the
program(s) so that it needs no libc or other shared objects at all?
Or did I misunderstand what you're trying to do?
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:05 <u-uy74@aetey.se> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:38:56PM -0400, John Regan wrote:
> > Hi there - I was wondering if it's possible to somehow set argv[0] when
> > calling the dynamic linker to load a program.
> ...
> > I'd like to retain whatever was actually typed on the command line (in
> this
> > case, set argv[0] to "app"), since many apps look at argv[0] to change
> > behavior, ie - gzip vs gunzip.
> >
> > I tried seeing if there was some switch I could pass to the linker, etc -
> > as far as I can tell, there's no easy way to do this.
>
> Set argv[0] to whatever you need when you exec*() the dynamic loader,
> which is straightforward with a binary wrapper (not with a shell).
>
> A binary wrapper also adds less overhead then going through a shell.
>
> There is imho hardly any incentive to put such functionalty into the
> loader. I say this even though we are dependent here on such tricks,
> to work around programs which insist on guessing things when not asked to.
>
> Regards,
> Rune
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-17 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-17 0:38 John Regan
2017-05-17 9:01 ` u-uy74
2017-05-17 11:00 ` mzpqnxow [this message]
2017-05-17 16:07 ` mzpqnxow
2017-05-17 16:16 ` John Regan
2017-05-17 16:24 ` Rich Felker
2017-05-17 19:07 ` u-uy74
2017-05-17 19:16 ` John Regan
2017-05-17 21:10 ` u-uy74
2017-05-17 21:15 ` mzpqnxow
2017-05-17 21:22 ` John Regan
2017-07-02 17:36 ` u-uy74
2017-07-04 20:58 ` Rich Felker
2017-07-05 6:01 ` u-uy74
2017-07-09 9:23 ` u-uy74
2017-07-09 12:23 ` Rich Felker
2017-07-09 14:04 ` u-uy74
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