Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Until/unless we can properly handle this in systrace, the simplest > > > workaround is probably to disable linkat in gtar by passing flags to > > > autoconf. > > > > I'm not sure we should remove support only because systrace is not > > able to cope. But maybe it's just me. > > Any idea if linkat gives any actual benefit for tar, or are they > just using it because it's there?
Whatever the benefit, the gtar code is built on the assumption that linkat() is available and calls it. If the real system call is missing, then some compatibility emulation from gnulib is used. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
