On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > Package: glibc > Version: 2.3.5-6 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Usually, glibc inlines calls to non-cancellable versions of some > system calls, such as open_not_cancel. The macro definitions are in > sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/not-cancel.h. > > This patch prevents those definitions from being inlined. It moves > them into separate *.c files.
No way. Two problems: this patch would present an ongoing maintenance burden for the Debian glibc maintainers, and it would have a performance impact on all Debian applications on all architectures. I fail to see why the core glibc package should be responsible for building this rather mauled library. What's Plash's CPU versions target? For x86, you could probably do this by: - replacing the dynamic linker instead of all of glibc - mapping a fake vsyscall page which checked the syscall number, and diverted to plash's code if appropriate - modifying the auxv vector to point at the modified vsyscall dso instead of the original - chaining to glibc's standard dynamic linker Then you can do it with pristine binaries. Should work on any architecture which can indirect syscalls through a VDSO (at least ia64, amd64, possibly soon ppc/ppc64). > This patch isn't quite as essential for putting Plash into Debian as > the other one I filed in the BTS. I am a little dubious about the other Plash bug, but I'll think about it. It seems marginally within the purview of the libc6-pic package and affects nothing else. But it seems like it would be randomly crippled without this patch. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
