If you have a third party tool that was broken by this shm_open change, a brilliant coworker found a workaround : preload a library that overrides the shm_open call and swaps slashes for underscores. It does the same for shm_unlink as well, so the application can properly free shared memory when needed.
deslash_shm.cc :
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
// function used in place of the standard shm_open() function
extern "C" int shm_open(const char *name, int oflag, mode_t mode)
{
// keep a function pointer to the real shm_open() function
static int (*real_open)(const char *, int, mode_t) = NULL;
// the first time in, ask the dynamic linker to find the real shm_open() function
if (!real_open) real_open = (int (*)(const char *, int, mode_t)) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT,"shm_open");
// take the name we were given and replace all slashes with underscores instead
std::string n = name;
std::replace(n.begin(), n.end(), '/', '_');
// call the real open function with the patched path name
return real_open(n.c_str(), oflag, mode);
}
// function used in place of the standard shm_unlink() function
extern "C" int shm_unlink(const char *name)
{
// keep a function pointer to the real shm_unlink() function
static int (*real_unlink)(const char *) = NULL;
// the first time in, ask the dynamic linker to find the real shm_unlink() function
if (!real_unlink) real_unlink = (int (*)(const char *)) dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "shm_unlink");
// take the name we were given and replace all slashes with underscores instead
std::string n = name;
std::replace(n.begin(), n.end(), '/', '_');
// call the real unlink function with the patched path name
return real_unlink(n.c_str());
}
To compile this file:
c++ -fPIC -shared -o deslash_shm.so deslash_shm.cc -ldl
And preload it before starting a process that tries to use non-standard slash characters in shm_open:
in bash:
export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/deslash_shm.so
in tcsh:
setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/deslash_shm.so