$NetBSD: patch-toolkit_modules_subprocess_subprocess__shared__unix.js,v 1.2 2020/10/07 11:10:35 wiz Exp $ Fix broken native messaging on NetBSD and possibly other BSDs too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543602 Please remove this patch when the upstream issue is resolved. --- toolkit/modules/subprocess/subprocess_shared_unix.js.orig 2019-07-06 01:49:01.000000000 +0000 +++ toolkit/modules/subprocess/subprocess_shared_unix.js @@ -12,7 +12,15 @@ const LIBC = OS.Constants.libc; -const LIBC_CHOICES = ["libc.so", "libSystem.B.dylib", "a.out"]; +/* libc.so isn't meant to be dlopen'ed. On Linux it's usually an ld + * script so one cannot dlopen it. On NetBSD (and possibly other + * BSDs too) dlopen'ing libc.so will succeed, but some global symbols, + * especially environ(7), are pointing to unused memory regions + * because they are meant to be overridden by the main executable. + * So the most portable way to access libc symbols is to do it through + * the NULL handle, i.e. the one which NSPR calls "a.out". + */ +const LIBC_CHOICES = ["a.out"]; const unix = { pid_t: ctypes.int32_t,