The point of chrt is to use the sched_setscheduler() syscall to change a PID's scheduler category (by default making it a realtime process), but the musl-libc maintainer decided he didn't like that system call and changed the wrapper to return -ENOSYS instead of making the system call:
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit?id=1e21e78bf7a5c24c217446d8760be7b7188711c2 Unfortunately musl-libc has a policy that musl is never wrong and thus it doesn't provide a #define __MUSL__ that you can test against to work around this kind of breakage, the way every other libc does. http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_why_is_there_no_MUSL_macro_.3F I did a quick stab at replacing sched_setscheduler() with a wrapper that calls syscall(NR_sched_setscheduler) but that musl commit broke _all_ the sched functions, sched_get_priority_max() and so on. I'd have to wrap all of them, even on systems that provide non-broken wrappers for the Linux syscall. This is why we have the TOYBOX_MUSL_NOMMU_IS_BROKEN config symbol, for a similar case where for 20 years nommu linux let you tell if you were building for a system with mmu or without it by a simple compile time probe: build a hello world that links against fork(); if it's not there it's a nommu system. Rich decided he didn't like that, and provided a broken fork() (always returns -ENOSYS) for nommu systems so you can't tell at compile time whether it's mmu or not. I'm trying to figure out if I should just leave chrt broken on musl and add a FAQ entry about it. If there was an #ifdef __MUSL__ I'd have the build produce a warning and the runtime produce a message, but of course there isn't... Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
