On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 01:18:06PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:02:38 +0300
> Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> schrieb:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:50:34PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > pipe(2) had an unnecessarily odd calling convention (ignoring the
> > > argument the user thought they were passing and returning the two file
> > > descriptors via the two return registers).  This required machine
> > > dependent assembly for every target and special handling in tracing
> > > tools (ktrace, dtrace, etc).  On 64-bit platforms, pipe(2)'s
> > > implementation is the only reason the two-register return model needs to
> > > exist at all (on 32-bit platforms it allows off_t to be returned from
> > > lseek).  
> > getpid() is another instance.
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> That all is a nice explanation, but how to recover from a broken system, on 
> which the
> order of installation wasn't performed the right way?

Copy the libc.so.7 binary from the build area to /lib manually, e.g. using
rescue shell.
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