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Harald Welte gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.orgHarald Welte has submitted this change and it was merged. Change subject: OsmoGSMTester: Explain patchelf is used sometimes to modify RPATH ...................................................................... OsmoGSMTester: Explain patchelf is used sometimes to modify RPATH Change-Id: I7bb811bc984c8d576984b038b391cf8130cc465e --- M OsmoGSMTester/chapters/intro.adoc 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Approvals: Harald Welte: Looks good to me, approved Jenkins Builder: Verified diff --git a/OsmoGSMTester/chapters/intro.adoc b/OsmoGSMTester/chapters/intro.adoc index 6e377da..55f1a5e 100644 --- a/OsmoGSMTester/chapters/intro.adoc +++ b/OsmoGSMTester/chapters/intro.adoc @@ -385,7 +385,11 @@ Also, the binaries from a trial are never installed system-wide, but are run with a specific 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' pointing at the trial's 'inst', so that -several trials can run consecutively without conflicting binary versions. +several trials can run consecutively without conflicting binary versions. For +some specific binaries which require extra permissions (such as osmo-bts-octphy +requiring 'CAP_NET_RAW'), 'patchelf' program is used to modify the binary +'RPATH' field instead because the OS dynamic linker skips 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' for +binaries with special permissions. Once a test suite run is complete, all its reserved resources are torn down (if the test scripts have not done so already), and the reservations are released -- To view, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/4657 To unsubscribe, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/settings Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I7bb811bc984c8d576984b038b391cf8130cc465e Gerrit-PatchSet: 2 Gerrit-Project: osmo-gsm-manuals Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Owner: Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin at sysmocom.de> Gerrit-Reviewer: Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> Gerrit-Reviewer: Jenkins Builder