Struct libloading::os::unix::Library

pub struct Library { /* fields omitted */ }

A platform-specific counterpart of the cross-platform Library.

Implementations

impl Library

pub unsafe fn new<P: AsRef<OsStr>>(filename: P) -> Result<Library, Error>

Find and eagerly load a shared library (module).

If the filename contains a path separator, the filename is interpreted as a path to a file. Otherwise, platform-specific algorithms are employed to find a library with a matching file name.

This is equivalent to Library::open(filename, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_LOCAL).

Safety

When a library is loaded initialization routines contained within the library are executed. For the purposes of safety, execution of these routines is conceptually the same calling an unknown foreign function and may impose arbitrary requirements on the caller for the call to be sound.

Additionally, the callers of this function must also ensure that execution of the termination routines contained within the library is safe as well. These routines may be executed when the library is unloaded.

pub fn this() -> Library

Load the Library representing the current executable.

Library::get calls of the returned Library will look for symbols in following locations in order:

1. Original program image;
2. Any executable object files (e.g. shared libraries) loaded at program startup;
3. Executable object files loaded at runtime (e.g. via other Library::new calls or via calls to the dlopen function)

Note that behaviour of Library loaded with this method is different from Libraries loaded with os::windows::Library::this.

This is equivalent to Library::open(None, RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_LOCAL).

pub unsafe fn open<P>(
    filename: Option<P>,
    flags: c_int
) -> Result<Library, Error> where
    P: AsRef<OsStr>, 

Find and load an executable object file (shared library).

See documentation for Library::this for further description of behaviour when the filename is None. Otherwise see Library::new.

Corresponds to dlopen(filename, flags).

Safety

When a library is loaded initialization routines contained within the library are executed. For the purposes of safety, execution of these routines is conceptually the same calling an unknown foreign function and may impose arbitrary requirements on the caller for the call to be sound.

Additionally, the callers of this function must also ensure that execution of the termination routines contained within the library is safe as well. These routines may be executed when the library is unloaded.

pub unsafe fn get<T>(&self, symbol: &[u8]) -> Result<Symbol<T>, Error>

Get a pointer to function or static variable by symbol name.

The symbol may not contain any null bytes, with an exception of last byte. Providing a null terminated symbol may help to avoid an allocation.

Symbol is interpreted as-is; no mangling is done. This means that symbols like x::y are most likely invalid.

Safety

Users of this API must specify the correct type of the function or variable loaded. Using a Symbol with a wrong type is undefined.

Platform-specific behaviour

Implementation of thread local variables is extremely platform specific and uses of such variables that work on e.g. Linux may have unintended behaviour on other targets.

On POSIX implementations where the dlerror function is not confirmed to be MT-safe (such as FreeBSD), this function will unconditionally return an error when the underlying dlsym call returns a null pointer. There are rare situations where dlsym returns a genuine null pointer without it being an error. If loading a null pointer is something you care about, consider using the Library::get_singlethreaded call.

pub unsafe fn get_singlethreaded<T>(
    &self,
    symbol: &[u8]
) -> Result<Symbol<T>, Error>

Get a pointer to function or static variable by symbol name.

The symbol may not contain any null bytes, with an exception of last byte. Providing a null terminated symbol may help to avoid an allocation.

Symbol is interpreted as-is; no mangling is done. This means that symbols like x::y are most likely invalid.

Safety

Users of this API must specify the correct type of the function or variable loaded. Using a Symbol with a wrong type is undefined.

It is up to the user of this library to ensure that no other calls to an MT-unsafe implementation of dlerror occur during execution of this function. Failing that, the behaviour of this function is not defined.

Platform-specific behaviour

Implementation of thread local variables is extremely platform specific and uses of such variables that work on e.g. Linux may have unintended behaviour on other targets.

pub fn into_raw(self) -> *mut c_void

Convert the Library to a raw handle.

The handle returned by this function shall be usable with APIs which accept handles as returned by dlopen.

pub unsafe fn from_raw(handle: *mut c_void) -> Library

Convert a raw handle returned by dlopen-family of calls to a Library.

Safety

The pointer shall be a result of a successful call of the dlopen-family of functions or a pointer previously returned by Library::into_raw call. It must be valid to call dlclose with this pointer as an argument.

pub fn close(self) -> Result<(), Error>

Unload the library.

This method might be a no-op, depending on the flags with which the Library was opened, what library was opened or other platform specifics.

You only need to call this if you are interested in handling any errors that may arise when library is unloaded. Otherwise the implementation of Drop for Library will close the library and ignore the errors were they arise.

The underlying data structures may still get leaked if an error does occur.

Trait Implementations

impl Debug for Library

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.

impl Drop for Library

fn drop(&mut self)

Executes the destructor for this type.

impl From<Library> for Library

fn from(lib: Library) -> Library

Performs the conversion.

impl From<Library> for Library

fn from(lib: Library) -> Library

Performs the conversion.

impl Send for Library

impl Sync for Library