On Tuesday 27 November 2012 02:09 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2012 07:54 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> From: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  libc/sysdeps/linux/common/vfork.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/vfork.c 
>> b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/vfork.c
>> index e7c9208..377418c 100644
>> --- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/vfork.c
>> +++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/common/vfork.c
>> @@ -4,13 +4,27 @@
>>   * Licensed under the LGPL v2.1, see the file COPYING.LIB in this tarball.
>>   */
>>  
>> +#include <signal.h>
>>  #include <unistd.h>
>>  #include <sys/types.h>
>>  #include <sys/syscall.h>
>>  
>>  extern __typeof(vfork) __vfork attribute_hidden;
>>  
>> -#ifdef __NR_vfork
>> +#if defined(__NR_fork) && !defined(__NR_vfork)
>> +pid_t __vfork(void)
>> +{
>> +    pid_t pid = INLINE_SYSCALL(fork, 0);
>> +
>> +    if (pid<0)
>> +            return -1
>> +
>> +    return pid;
>> +}
>> +weak_alias(__vfork, vfork)
>> +libc_hidden_weak(vfork)
>> +
>> +#elif defined(__NR_vfork)
>>  
>>  # define __NR___vfork __NR_vfork
>>  _syscall0(pid_t, __vfork)
>>
> 
> Hi Markos,
> 
> First of all many thanks for picking this up. I'm the maintainer for ARC
> Linux kernel - current being reviewed on lkml (along side metag) so your
> work will help us immensely - as we also need to have asm-generic
> unistd.h based syscall ABI.
> 
> In that regarding I've been looking at your v1 and v2 patches and would
> like to contribute as much as possible.
> 
> While v1 of this particular patch made sense to me - this one doesn't.
> kernel's asm-generic unistd.h only defines clone (and doesn't define
> vfork/fork). Thus this file will compile to nothing as opposed to v1
> where vfork would correctly call clone syscall with correct args -
> something which the vfork syscall handler itself in kernel typically
> does. And since that would be gone - we need to do same thing in user
> space wrapper.
> 
> What am I missing here...
> 
> Thx,
> -Vineet

Spoke too soon - I went back to the your orig change and it's review
comment - so the file compiling to NOP is indeed good. Please ignore above.
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