Bug#325600: closed by Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (Closing bugs fixed in unreleased version 2.4-1 of the glibc)
Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
>>> Tom Evans a écrit :
>>>> When will this version be moved into stable/Etch?
>>> This version (or a later one) will move to stable for Lenny, but will
>>> never move to Etch, as it is now a released version.
>> Somewhere in the past there was a very simple patch (look for "not_cancel")
>> that worked for the 2.3 release of the glibc (Tom wrote that):
>>
>> "If I simply change (in linuxthreads/sysdep/unix/sysv/linux/not-cancel.h)
>> from:
>>
>> # define waitpid_not_cancel(pid, stat_loc, options) \
>> INLINE_SYSCALL (osf_wait4, 4, pid, stat_loc, options, NULL)
>>
>> to:
>>
>> # define waitpid_not_cancel(pid, stat_loc, options) \
>> wait4( pid, stat_loc, options, NULL )
>>
>> all is well - I understand the performance benefits of the inlining,
>> but since x86 is NPTL anyway, perhaps this is an okay solution?
>>
>> I'm guessing that there is an Alpha-related optimizer bug perhaps?
>> Or that the inline_syscall4 in sysdep/unix/alpha/sysdep.h is somehow
>> broken?"
>
>
>> Why was this patch never included for stable?
> Because we weren't aware it existed ? Because no alpha machine is
> available to developers for a year now ?
>
> You know we're not semi gods with an echelon trigger on any glibc
> patch that floats in the intarweb.
>
> But if the patch is _indeed_ that simple, I truly believe we could
> make it into etch-r1.
>
Could you please try this patch instead:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/unix/alpha/sysdep.h.diff?r1=1.26&r2=1.26.2.1&cvsroot=glibc
It looks a lot better, and it's always easier to convince the release
managers to accept a patch if it has been accepted upstream first.
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