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SubjectRe: [PATCH] UML: don't discard .text.exit section
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On 19.08.2016 12:48, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> On 08/19/2016 03:14 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
>> <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for delays, I am travelling.
>>>> Do we need ".fini_array" section? It's also destructors that we don't
>>>> run. Or does UML use them? Does discarding ".fini_array" help?
>>>>
>>>
>>> libc has desctructors and use them for whatever purpose it needs.
>>
>>
>> Does UML actually gracefully exit running global destructors? That
>> would also require gracefully shutting down all threads/cpus. Doesn't
>> it just _exit (or syscall(SYS_exit_group))?
>>
>
> Sigh, I dunno, I didn't look that far. My intention was to fix build and keep old behavior unaffected.
> If you want to wipe destructors, and think that this is ok, go ahead.

UML exits like any regular C program does.
The main() function is in arch/um/os-Linux/main.c, when the kernel terminates,
hence linux_main() returns back to main() it just returns the exit code.
At this point libc's destructors will run, right?

Thanks,
//richard

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