Bug#209145: libc6: ldd output ugliness

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 08 Sep 2003 03:22:19 +0200,
Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> 
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2-5
> Severity: minor
> 
> ldd does too much indentation currently, here are a few examples:
> 
> ,----
> | fry:/home/jk# ldd /lib/libc.so.6 
> |         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> |         fry:/home/jk# 
> `----
> 
> ,----
> | fry:/home/jk# ldd /lib/libpthread.so.0 
> |                 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40062000)
> |         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> | fry:/home/jk#
> `----
> 
> ,----
> | fry:/home/jk# ldd /bin/ls
> |                 librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x40026000)
> |         libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40038000)
> |         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003f000)
> |         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40165000)
> |         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> |         libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x401b5000)
> | fry:/home/jk# 
> `----
> 
> Seen with various shells and TERMs.

This is because first writev() shows only one character "\t".  I guess
this linux-gate.so.1 is appeared in 2.6 kernel with sysenter ready
processor (Pentium4).  I still don't know why this writev() is stopped
to output, and where is it resolved.

writev(1, [{"\t", 1}, {"linux-gate.so.1", 15}, {" => ", 4}, {"", 0}, {" (0x", 4}, {"00000000", 8}, {")\n", 2}], 7       ) = 1
writev(1, [{"\t", 1}, {"librt.so.1", 10}, {" => ", 4}, {"/lib/librt.so.1", 15}, {" (0x", 4}, {"4001a000", 8}, {")\n", 2}], 7) = 44



Regards,
-- gotom