Librarchy

librarcy

Since Dune does not handle talking to llink (over HTTP) in any form [1], I found myself missing the unrar streaming support that llink provides. So I started considering a solution for this problem. I have assumed that Dune developers are not approachable, nor particularly interested in helping someone on the outside, so it would have to be a solution I could do myself.

I started on the idea of using LD_PRELOAD to point to my glue code, which intercepts the calls open64/read/lseek/close/opendir/readdir64/closedir/lstat64/stat64.

Please note that librarcy needs a special version of unrar that features the extra option -sk to seek into an archive. This is available in the llink packages.

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Sources

librarcy-1.0.1.tar.gz 

Environment Variable

LIBRARCY_UNRAR=/path   : specify path to unrar. 
LIBRARCY_DEBUG=1       : Enable debug log "/tmp/librarcy.log"

Dune binaries

I have now reached a point where this appears to work. To test the libc replacement library, assuming you already have telnet access, download the binary and setup like:

# cd /tmp
# wget http://lundman.net/ftp/librarcy/librarcy.so.1.0.1
# wget http://lundman.net/ftp/librarcy/unrar
# killall shell root
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tango/firmware/lib
# cd /
# env LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/librarcy.so.1.0.1 firmware/bin/root &

You can watch the content of "/tmp/librarcy.log" for signs of success.

[1] I note the SMP Libraries handles HTTP:// URLs internally, so possible could exploit this to play remote media.