On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 08:51:35 +1200, Michael Cree writes: >I doubt that this has anything to do with posix.
yes, you're right, i had forgotten about that patch actually having to work around the clone syscall by using not just getpid() (which is in posix) but the lower level syscall stuff. >Was that for 32-bit sparc (which Debian no longer >supports) or 64-bit sparc (which is a ports architecture)? 64 bit if i remember correctly. >I'll ask on #debian-ports as to >whether anyone knows why the sparc patch was introduced. don't bother: i wrote that patch about 8-10 years ago when i needed this to work on sparc boxes. anyway, i'll sort this out for alpha without breaking sparc if possible. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + http://snafu.priv.at/ To clean and uninfected by the Empire remain, Emacs you use must. -- Tollef Fog Heen
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