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Top Forums Programming Search the symbol table of a child process Post 303034338 by alphakili on Tuesday 23rd of April 2019 12:48:29 PM
Old 04-23-2019
Piping enables me to read the console output of a process. I did a fair bit of piping, back when I ported CMake to the Amiga platform.

Now, I simply do not get: How does that give me access to the symbols of the execve process? AFAICS there is no way, that a random process like 'ls' is going to come up with a generalized form of submitting a symbol value (ie. "main = 0xbeefdeaf") to either the stdin, stdout or stderr. I guess, if I *could* interrerupt the child process and execute something like

Code:
// ** child code
//int parentPipeFd = something sensible
void interrupt_handler() {
    void *main__symbol = dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "main");
    fprintf(parentPipeFd, "0x%x", main__symbol);
}

But then how do I actually run a piece of code on the child side without having to write it in the actual code of the execve process?

Sorry, I am being really thick headed on this point, I can see. Please bear with me, I am so new to all of this Smilie.

EDIT: Could this be what I am looking for? EDIT EDIT: I am too new to post links. I think, I figured it out, thanks for the help Smilie.

Last edited by alphakili; 04-23-2019 at 02:54 PM..
 

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FORK(2) 						      BSD System Calls Manual							   FORK(2)

NAME
fork -- create a new process LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> pid_t fork(void); DESCRIPTION
The fork() system call causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process) except for the following: o The child process has a unique process ID. o The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process). o The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that, for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a descriptor in the child process can affect a subsequent read(2) or write(2) by the parent. This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish standard input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes. o The child process' resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2). o All interval timers are cleared; see setitimer(2). o The child process has only one thread, corresponding to the calling thread in the parent process. If the process has more than one thread, locks and other resources held by the other threads are not released and therefore only async-signal-safe functions (see sigaction(2)) are guaranteed to work in the child process until a call to execve(2) or a similar function. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, fork() returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
The fork() system call will fail and no child process will be created if: [EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution would be exceeded. The limit is given by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_MAXPROC. (The limit is actually ten less than this except for the super user). [EAGAIN] The user is not the super user, and the system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would be exceeded. The limit is given by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_MAXPROCPERUID. [EAGAIN] The user is not the super user, and the soft resource limit corresponding to the resource argument RLIMIT_NPROC would be exceeded (see getrlimit(2)). [ENOMEM] There is insufficient swap space for the new process. SEE ALSO
execve(2), rfork(2), setitimer(2), setrlimit(2), sigaction(2), vfork(2), wait(2) HISTORY
The fork() function appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
May 31, 2013 BSD
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