Monday Patch Queue Review update (2021-08-30)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2021-08-30 @ 0900h EST (UTC-5)

Video/Audio: https://bluejeans.com/9093064454

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * 323 patches
 * Source attribution cleanups, series 2700 (Carlos to review)
 * [v2] setlocale: Fail if iconv module for charset is not present [BZ #27996]
   * Carlos to review.
 * HJ would like to move forward with debug interface.
   * Current version is at v5.
   * Series 2714, Extend struct r_debug to support multiple namespaces
   * Noted various ld.so bugs:
     * Bug 27609.
       * https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20210817184546.3330651-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com/
     * elf: Copy l_addr/l_ld when adding ld.so to a new namespace
       * https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2675
   * All 4 patches should be reviewed by Florian.
   * Note: Do not want to change symbol size.
     * Used a symbol alias for this.
     * First: generate assembly code, include assembly, place symbol alias after.
 * Do we have a template for new locales not under FSF copyright assignment?
   * Carlos: No we don't have a template. Please propose something.
 * Some rtld-audit fixes (Series 2577)
   * https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2577
   * Looking for reviewer.
   * v3 has the aarch64 fixes.
     * Ask Szabolcs to review aarch64.
 * glibc 2.34 suffers a spurious fail for pthread_cancel/pthread_kill
   * Looking at two approaches:
     * Adhemerval's fixes for glibc 2.35
     * Florian's approach for backporting to 2.34
   * What about the pthread self-kill signal case.
     * Can the kernel deliver all the signals?
     * Why is this required?
 * C.UTF-8 v8 - Carlos to review.
   * Cleanup the files to make them iso-8859-1/iso-8859-15
     * Use octal sequences
 * Review: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2728
 * Alredy reviewed: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2723
   * Push?
 * Under review: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2716
   * HJ looking to RCA. First 4 patches OK.
 * Is this needed? https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2713
 * Needs v4 - https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=2711
 * Stopping at 44766

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Cheers,
Carlos.