books/apitue/sample-code/11/elf.c

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/* This file is part of the sample code and exercises
* used by the class "Advanced Programming in the UNIX
* Environment" taught by Jan Schaumann
* <jschauma@netmeister.org> at Stevens Institute of
* Technology.
*
* This file is in the public domain.
*
* You don't have to, but if you feel like
* acknowledging where you got this code, you may
* reference me by name, email address, or point
* people to the course website:
* https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/
*/
/* A simple program to introduce the concept of shared libraries.
*
* Compiling this program will work, as we have the forward declaration
* from the libelf header. Linking the executable will fail,
* unless we explicitly link against libelf.
*
* Compare 'cc -Wall math.c -lelf' with 'cc -Wall -rdynamic dlopenex.c
* -dl'.
*/
#include <err.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <libelf.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv) {
int fd;
Elf *e;
char *id;
if (argc != 2) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Usage: %s string\n", argv[0]);
}
if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Unable to open %s: %s\n",
argv[1], strerror(errno));
}
if (elf_version(EV_CURRENT) == EV_NONE) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "ELF library too old");
}
if ((e = elf_begin(fd, ELF_C_READ, (Elf *) 0)) == NULL) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Unable to elf_begin %s: %s\n",
argv[1], strerror(elf_errno()));
}
if ((id = elf_getident(e, 0)) == NULL) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Unable to elf_getident: %s\n",
strerror(elf_errno()));
}
(void)close(fd);
printf("%s\n", id);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}