For testing LD_PRELOAD, I wrote my own getpid
, which prints something before calling the original getpid
using dlsym. The code is given below.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
typedef pid_t (*getpidType)(void);
pid_t getpid(void)
{
printf("Hello, getpid!\n");
getpidType f = (getpidType)dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "getpid");
return f();
}
However when I use such getpid
in my program and run it using LD_PRELOAD, by typing LD_PRELOAD=./prelib.so ./prog
, I get the following error.
./prog: symbol lookup error: ./prelib.so: undefined symbol: dlsym
But If I do LD_PRELOAD=./prelib.so bash -c 'echo $$'
, there is no such error. Any idea what is going on here.