Recently, I've been pouring through uClibc's symbol table looking for cruft to remove. I suppose you could call it a New Year resolution....
I've found a few things that are totally useless, and a number of things that are basically a private interface for libpthread to use (which still shouldn't be bloating *my* table as I've configured out threads). While enumerating the latter type of symbol, I've come across something that might be a bug in threading. Most of them are aliases of other libc functions prefixed by "__libc_", placed there so that linuxthreads.old can wrap them. (NPTL seems to rely instead on code embedded into the main uClibc dso, and I'm not sure just how "new" linuxthreads is coping...) "__libc_select" appears at first glance to be such a symbol. However, I can't find any reference to it in any of the threading libraries. Has perhaps linuxthreads.old been broken all along, in that "cancellation" does not take place on a call to select()? ---- Michael Deutschmann <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
