pkgsrc/mail/thunderbird68/patches/patch-toolkit_modules_subprocess_subprocess__shared__unix.js
ryoon 4aea1c42a6 mail/thunderbird68: import thunderbird68-68.12.0
Thunderbird is a free email, news, and chat application with support for
add-ons, derived from the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
2020-09-03 20:22:25 +00:00

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$NetBSD: patch-toolkit_modules_subprocess_subprocess__shared__unix.js,v 1.1 2020/09/03 20:22:26 ryoon Exp $
--- toolkit/modules/subprocess/subprocess_shared_unix.js.orig 2019-09-09 23:43:44.000000000 +0000
+++ toolkit/modules/subprocess/subprocess_shared_unix.js
@@ -12,7 +12,15 @@
const LIBC = OS.Constants.libc;
-const LIBC_CHOICES = ["libc.so", "libSystem.B.dylib", "a.out"];
+/* libc.so isn't meant to be dlopen'ed. On Linux it's usually an ld
+ * script so one cannot dlopen it. On NetBSD (and possibly other
+ * BSDs too) dlopen'ing libc.so will succeed, but some global symbols,
+ * especially environ(7), are pointing to unused memory regions
+ * because they are meant to be overridden by the main executable.
+ * So the most portable way to access libc symbols is to do it through
+ * the NULL handle, i.e. the one which NSPR calls "a.out".
+ */
+const LIBC_CHOICES = ["a.out"];
const unix = {
pid_t: ctypes.int32_t,