On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:17:28PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Roman Divacky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about commiting this to note this change? > > > > + <para>A serious problem emulating /proc for Linux was fixed. Many Linux > > + ports are now working including the linux-flashplugin9 port.</para> > > "A serious problem was fixed"? Really? And if none of that software > worked before this commit, how come they were already in ports?
I do not think that mentioning of this should appear in release notes, but Roman is mostly right in stating the fact. Newest glibc reads <linuxroot>/proc/pid/maps in chunks to determine stack address for created thread. Failure of the read(2) caused new linux libraries to fail on our linuxolator.
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