Quoting r. Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma_lat-09 and results > > Michael> At least for this usage, I think it would be best to > Michael> rename mthca.a (and mthca.so) to libmthca.a (and > Michael> libmthca.so), respectively, and put them in libpath, then > Michael> softlink libmthca.so to infiniband directory. > > Michael> This avoids the need for such utilities. Would you > Michael> accept such a change? > > That makes sense, although I don't see why we want libmthca.so in the > regular library directory.
I can imagine a cluster system where loading shared libraries work, but reading a directory doesnt. Ronald Minnich should be able to enlighten us on whether bproc really has such a limitation. Roland - do I describe brpoc correctly? I know bproc supports dlopen from remote applications, but what about glob() on a remote directory? Does that work from a blade? > It seems like the best would be to have > libmthca.a in $(libdir) and mthca.so in $(libdir)/infiniband. That > way we make it easy to do static linking and avoid having two names > for the same object. OK, but I dont know how to do that in autotools. Do you? > Michael> Hmm, this would be a security problem if someone sets > Michael> suid bit on programs using uverbs. > > True, good point. To me being able to set the search path is much > more useful than being able to have secure suid verbs programs, Actually, whats the importance of it? It seems the user can compile libibverbs as readily as the plugin ... > so I > don't want to get rid of the OPENIB_DRIVER_PATH. > Does something like the following seem good enough? Solves this particular problem, but maybe, additionally, there should be a configuration option to disable OPENIB_DRIVER_PATH lookup? I also wander about the user of strdupa - can it cause stack overflow? -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
