Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Regression tests fail with musl libc because libpq.so can't be loaded
Date: 2024-03-20 13:35:51
Message-ID: ZfrmN4WHuJgD95fw@momjian.us
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:39:20AM +0100, Wolfgang Walther wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut:
> > We could turn it around and do
> >
> > #if defined(__linux__)
> > #if defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(__UCLIBC__ )
> > #define PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV
> > #else
> > #define PS_USE_NONE
> > #endif
> > #endif
>
> This works as well.

Yes, I prefer this. I am worried the environ hackery will bite us
someday and the cause will be hard to find.

> I also put together a PoC of what was mentioned in musl's mailing list:
> Instead of clobbering environ at all, exec yourself again with padded argv0.
> This works, too. Attached.

It is hard to imagine why we would add an extra exec on every Linux
server start for this.

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