Here's something that doesn't seem to work on Linux

the way I would have expected:

I wrote a small utility program in C++ using Kdevelop. It is a

console-mode program that uses only the stdio.h run-time

library. I want to run it via exec() from a PHP script on a

shared hosting web server. It all works fine on my

development machine but not the shared host. Neither

my machine nor the shared host are running PHP in safe

mode. When I run the custom program on the shared host

via their provided SSH shell login I get an error indicating that

the stdlibc++.so.5 shared library could not be found. Ignoring

version dependency problems for the moment, I would expect

that a simple console-mode program would be self-contained

and should not require any external libraries once compiled.

So first, can anybody tell me if that is correct, or would a simple

"Hello World" program require run-time linkage with resident

libraries on its host system? (If it does, Linux loses many

points in my opinion.) Of course the login shell on the shared

host is running in a chroot jail.

Second, could the chroot jail be the cause of the problem?

This seems like a ridiculous obstacle to something that

should be very simple.

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Phil Mattison
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