On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:55 -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > It was discovered that some applications will crash if they are linked > against libhugetlbfs _and_ LD_PRELOAD is used to preload the library. > Recommend against doing this.
Thanks. Note that this is still a bug and we'll be fixing this soon. The doc update is just wise to have since this is a known issue. > diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO > index ab42540..b4d7de6 100644 > --- a/HOWTO > +++ b/HOWTO > @@ -160,6 +160,10 @@ environment variables: > This tells the dynamic linker to load the libhugetlbfs shared > library, even though the program wasn't originally linked against it. > > + Note: If the program is linked against libhugetlbfs, preloading the > + library may lead to application crashes. You should skip this > + step in that case. > + > 2. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory containing libhugetlbfs.so > This is only necessary if you haven't installed libhugetlbfs.so to a > system default path. If you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, make sure the > -- Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com) IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
