[PATCH v2] libdw: Try .gnu_debugaltlink paths relative to the debug file

Roland McGrath roland at hack.frob.com
Mon Dec 16 23:29:57 UTC 2013


> In Fedora, these paths are relative to the debug file itself, so that's
> a better thing to try first.  We don't actually have the debug path in
> libdw, but we can usually find it from elf->fildes and /proc/self/fd/.

That's even more barfalicious (extreme Linuxism kludgery to paper over
lousy component layering) than the whole abomination of the libdw layer
opening files in the first place.


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