On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:36:13 +0100, Roland McGrath wrote:
> We could detect it also from the format of /proc/PID/maps, for
64-bit
> inferiors there will always be some of the modules at >= 4GB.
> But that also nobody guarantees.
There is no guarantee at all (though in practice for x86-64 you are
guaranteed to see the [vsyscall] fake entry with its fixed high address).
Besides other issues I find this detection to be at a lower level than to
expect some OS-specific segment there.
And it's much more roundabout than looking at the ELF header of
/proc/PID/exe and not better in any other way (same minimal number of
syscalls required).
This grovel_auxv only caller already reads /proc/PID/maps anyway so the
[vsyscall] would theoretically help in the improbable
case of valid32 && valid64.
Agreed, though my pedanticism insists that we have that fallback and
my
paranoia that you at least fiddle the code temporarily to ensure you have
tested the /proc/PID/exe code path.
Yes.
Thanks,
Jan