On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 16:04 -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > 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.
Gar! I left off the S-o-b line again. One of these days I'll start remembering. ------------------------------------------------------------------- docs: Add note about bug when preloading the library with a linked application Signed-off-by: Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Steve Fox 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
