On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:52 +0200, Jens Auer wrote:

> The gettid function is not defined in any header, if it interpret the
> source correctly. The _syscall0-macro expands to a function definition
> pid_t gettid(void).

_syscallX are not available for userspace in recent kernel headers
(since April), this causes VDR compilation failures also with the
current Fedora Core 6 test versions.  More info:
http://tinyurl.com/qaydh , http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/128

The attached patch appears to work for me, and from a bit of Googling I
get the impression that it should probably work with all kernel header
sets since 2.4.20.
--- thread.c~	2006-06-02 16:51:39.000000000 +0300
+++ thread.c	2006-08-18 01:26:24.000000000 +0300
@@ -318,7 +318,5 @@
 
-_syscall0(pid_t, gettid)
-
 tThreadId cThread::ThreadId(void)
 {
-  return gettid();
+  return syscall(__NR_gettid);
 }
_______________________________________________
vdr mailing list
vdr@linuxtv.org
http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Reply via email to