On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM, peter green <[email protected]> wrote: > Do porters and/or glibc maintainers think this should be dealt > with on the libc6-dev side or should I continue to file patches that deal > with this issue on the application side?
As an upstream glibc maintainer I would be happy to see this fixed in glibc and gdb, but nobody has stepped up to fix it. The `struct user` is used by the gdbserver code that uses ptrace (PTRACE_PEEKUSR/POKEUSR) to peek/poke at the inferior and read out stored register values from the USER area. The userspace definition of `struct user` is equivalent to task_regs(child) layout and is an agreement between the kernel and userspace for debugging. There appears to be no good reason for it to be called `struct user` on Linux (on other OSs this is harder to control), it should have been named something that doesn't clash with the applications namespace e.g. struct __user. Are you volunteering to change glibc and gdb, and work with upstream to get the changes merged? Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CADZpyizzPY2jhHNRAoUPACsT-JziVPrv1vZqSNyU+ZfASJ0=e...@mail.gmail.com
