moved "glblModPath" variable inside global data pool

(but still as a variable, not part of glbl object)

3 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/runtime/glbl.h b/runtime/glbl.h
index 0db2f0ac..d61f9b41 100644
--- a/runtime/glbl.h
+++ b/runtime/glbl.h
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@
 
 #define glblGetIOBufSize() 4096 /* size of the IO buffer, e.g. for strm class */
 
-extern uchar *glblModPath; /* module load path */
-
-
 /* interfaces */
 BEGINinterface(glbl) /* name must also be changed in ENDinterface macro! */
 	uchar* (*GetWorkDir)(void);
diff --git a/runtime/rsyslog.c b/runtime/rsyslog.c
index b7f0c2c1..d0eaa6f8 100644
--- a/runtime/rsyslog.c
+++ b/runtime/rsyslog.c
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@
 #include "conf.h"
 #include "glbl.h"
 
+/* globally visible static data - see comment in rsyslog.h for details */
+uchar *glblModPath; /* module load path */
+
 /* static data */
 static int iRefCount = 0; /* our refcount - it MUST exist only once inside a process (not thread)
  		             thus it is perfectly OK to use a static. MUST be initialized to 0! */
diff --git a/runtime/rsyslog.h b/runtime/rsyslog.h
index 3841df6c..5a3175e2 100644
--- a/runtime/rsyslog.h
+++ b/runtime/rsyslog.h
@@ -287,6 +287,17 @@ void dbgprintf(char *, ...) __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)));
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "obj.h"
 
+/* the variable below is a trick: before we can init the runtime, the caller
+ * may want to set a module load path. We can not do this via the glbl class
+ * because it needs an initialized runtime system (and may at some point in time
+ * even be loaded itself). So this is a no-go. What we do is use a single global
+ * variable which may be provided with a pointer by the caller. This variable
+ * resides in rsyslog.c, the main runtime file. We have not seen any realy valule
+ * in providing object access functions. If you don't like that, feel free to
+ * add them. -- rgerhards, 2008-04-17
+ */
+extern uchar *glblModPath; /* module load path */
+
 /* some runtime prototypes */
 rsRetVal rsrtInit(char **ppErrObj, obj_if_t *pObjIF);
 rsRetVal rsrtExit(void);