Re: [PATCH] Improve ptrace-error detection on Linux targets

Sergio Durigan Junior
2019-08-19T17:04:16Z

On Monday, August 19 2019, Christian Biesinger wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:47 AM Sergio Durigan Junior
> <sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I'm
>> also concerned that it's unreasonable to expect users to have
>> libselinux-devel (on Fedora) installed.
>
> I'm confused, why would users have to have the -dev version installed?
> Can't you just dlopen("libselinux.so.1") and it'll work fine without
> the -dev package?

libselinux.so is present in the libselinux-devel package, but
libselinux.so.1 is present in the libselinux package. We could dlopen
it, sure. I don't know if libselinux is installed by default, though.

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