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Re: glibc 2.0.110 failures - with Linux 2.2.0pre7


>>>>> SL Baur writes:

sb> Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
sb>  ...
>> The one thing which springs to my mind is vfork.

sb> Urgh.  I saw the vfork discussion, but didn't believe Linus would add
sb> it at this late date.  A real implementation of vfork _was_ added
sb> between 2.2.0-pre6 and pre7 ...

>> Shouldn't a vfork syscall added to
>> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/syscalls.list like to the other
>> architectures?

>> Any successes so far? Any with Linux 2.2.0re7 on ix86?

>> For now I'd advise against installing glibc 2.0.110 if make check
>> fails for you!

sb> O.K.

Otherwise try changing the #ifdef __NR_vfork to #if 0 in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/vfork.c to disable the Linux vfork call.  With
this change glibc 2.0.110 works for me.

Andreas
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