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18.Dd October 9, 2014
19.Dt DL_ITERATE_PHDR 3
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm dl_iterate_phdr
23.Nd iterate over program headers
24.Sh LIBRARY
25For the dynamically linked binaries, the service is provided by
26.Xr ld-elf.so.1 1
27dynamic linker.
28Statically linked programs use an implementation of
29.Fn dl_iterate_phdr
30from libc.
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.In link.h
33.Ft int
34.Fn dl_iterate_phdr "int (*callback)(struct dl_phdr_info *, size_t, void *)" "void *data"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Fn dl_iterate_phdr
38function iterates over all ELF objects loaded into a process's
39address space, calling
40.Fa callback
41for each object, passing it information about the object's
42program headers and the
43.Fa data
44argument.
45The iteration is aborted when all objects are passed, or when the next
46.Fa callback
47call returns non-zero value.
48The information about the program headers is passed in a structure
49that is defined as:
50.Bd -literal
51struct dl_phdr_info {
52	Elf_Addr	dlpi_addr;
53	const char	*dlpi_name;
54	const Elf_Phdr	*dlpi_phdr;
55	Elf_Half	dlpi_phnum;
56	unsigned long long int dlpi_adds;
57	unsigned long long int dlpi_subs;
58	size_t		dlpi_tls_modid;
59	void		*dlpi_tls_data;
60};
61.Ed
62.Pp
63The members of
64.Li struct dl_phdr_info
65have the following meaning:
66.Bl -tag -width dlpi_tls_modid
67.It Fa dlpi_addr
68The base address at which the object is mapped into the address
69space of the calling process.
70.It Fa dlpi_name
71The pathname of the ELF object.
72.It Fa dlpi_phdr
73A pointer to the object's program headers.
74.It Fa dlpi_phnum
75The number of program headers in the object.
76.It Fa dlpi_adds
77The counter of the object loads performed by the dynamic linker.
78.It Fa dlpi_subs
79The counter of the object unloads performed by the dynamic linker.
80.It Fa dlpi_tls_modid
81The TLS index of the object.
82.It Fa dlpi_tls_data
83A pointer to the initialization data for the object TLS segment.
84.El
85.Pp
86Future versions of
87.Fx
88might add more members to this structure.
89To make it possible for programs to check whether any new members have
90been added, the size of the structure is passed as an second argument to
91.Fa callback .
92.Pp
93The third argument to callback is the
94.Fa data
95value passed to the call to
96.Fn dl_iterate_phdr ,
97allowing the
98.Fa callback
99to have a context.
100.Sh RETURN VALUES
101The
102.Fn dl_iterate_phdr
103returns the value returned by the last
104.Fa callback
105call executed.
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr ld 1 ,
108.Xr ld-elf.so.1 1 ,
109.Xr dlopen 3 ,
110.Xr elf 5
111.Sh HISTORY
112The
113.Nm
114function first appeared in
115.Fx 7.0 .
116