Clarify process.report glibcVersionRuntime semantics for statically linked glibc builds
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Descripción
What is the issue?
process.report.getReport().header.glibcVersionRuntime can be absent in a Node.js binary that appears to be statically linked against glibc.
That may be intentional, but the current documentation does not appear to define the presence semantics of glibcVersionRuntime, especially for statically linked glibc builds. This makes it easy for ecosystem code to interpret an absent glibcVersionRuntime as "not glibc" or "musl", even when glibcVersionCompiler is present.
Reproduction
Using Node.js v22.21.1:
$ file "$(command -v node)"
/usr/bin/node: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 4.19.0, stripped
$ ldd --version | head -n 1
ldd (GNU libc) 2.39
$ node -p "JSON.stringify({
node: process.version,
execPath: process.execPath,
glibcVersionCompiler: process.report.getReport().header.glibcVersionCompiler,
glibcVersionRuntime: process.report.getReport().header.glibcVersionRuntime,
node_target_type: process.config.variables.node_target_type,
node_shared: process.config.variables.node_shared
}, null, 2)"
{
"node": "v22.21.1",
"execPath": "/usr/bin/node",
"glibcVersionCompiler": "2.39",
"node_target_type": "static_library",
"node_shared": false
}
glibcVersionRuntime is omitted from the report object.
Why this is unclear
The diagnostic report documentation shows both fields in the example report:
"glibcVersionRuntime": "2.17",
"glibcVersionCompiler": "2.17"
The report documentation also says the report version is bumped when a key is added or removed, or when a value type changes.
However, I could not find documentation stating whether glibcVersionRuntime is guaranteed to be present on Linux glibc builds, whether it may be omitted, or whether it is expected to be omitted for statically linked glibc builds.
The implementation appears to emit glibcVersionRuntime only when dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "gnu_get_libc_version") succeeds, while glibcVersionCompiler is emitted under __GLIBC__.
Expected documentation / clarification
It would be useful for the documentation to clarify one of the following:
glibcVersionRuntimeis optional and may be absent when the runtime glibc version cannot be dynamically queried, including statically linked glibc builds; orglibcVersionRuntimeshould be present for statically linked glibc builds, and its absence is a bug; or- consumers should not use absence of
glibcVersionRuntimeas evidence that the runtime is musl or non-glibc.
I am not asserting that the current runtime behavior is necessarily wrong. The issue is that the field's absence is observable, but the documented contract does not appear to define what that absence means.
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Línea de trabajo
Comienza con la documentación del informe de diagnóstico y los campos process.report.getReport().header descritos en el issue. Aclara si glibcVersionRuntime puede estar ausente cuando glibc está enlazado estáticamente y que esa ausencia no es evidencia de musl; se considerará terminado cuando la documentación defina la semántica de su presencia junto al ejemplo existente.
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Evaluación
- Stack tecnológico
- javascript, linux, node.js
- Área
- documentation, operating-systems
- Tipo de issue
- Documentación
- Dificultad
- 2/5
- Tiempo estimado
- 1-3 horas
- Estado de actividad
- Activo
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 68/100