Roland Mainz wrote: > Ali Bahrami wrote: >> ld.so can encounter the same file under more than one name, via symlinks >> in the path or file, and via relative paths vs. fully qualified ones. >> Since it only wants to map each such object once, and because it needs >> to refer to it using a single fully qualified path, resolvepath() is >> used to canonify the path and compare it to what's already loaded before >> opening it. > > Ah... Ok... but wouldn't it be simpler to use only the inode information > from the |stat()|-call ? >
Maybe, but we need (or strongly want, anyway) the canonical name for each object we map. It makes diagnostics and debugging consistent. We use the inode/dev information too. - Ali
