Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-03-14)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2022-03-07 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * 255 patches with NEW/NOBODY.
 * getaddrinfo facelift and fixes (Sidhesh)
  * Some feedback from Carlos regarding DNS access.
  * Feedback from Andreas about example.org.
 * [v5] Allow for unpriviledged nested containers (DJ)
  * Florian reviewing.
 * [v6] Support DT_RELR relative relocation format (HJ)
  * Added for x86_64, ppc64le looking at this. What about others? (Adhemerval)
  * What about aarch64 and s390x? Other arches like RSIC-V?
  * Confirmed for 2.38 we have x86_64, ppc64, ppc64le.
  * Would be nice to have aarch64.
 * scripts/dso-ordering-test.py: Fix C&P error in * callrefs processing
  * Adhemerval to review.
 * [v5] elf: Fix DFS sorting algorithm for LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS with missing libraries (BZ #28868)
  * Review from Florian?
 * Remove kernel version and distinguish library check (Adhemerval)
  * Waiting for Florian to finish review.
  * Discussed that 4.9 is the oldest LTS kernel we could support.
  * No large benefit to move to 4.9 and it would cause downstream problems.
  * Relaxing the version check is a step forward.
 * PowerPC64 static-pie (Alan Modra)
  * Tulio (IBM) to review.
 * : C++20 P0482R6 and C2X N2653: support for char8_t, mbrtoc8(), and c8rtomb().
  * No review.
 * [v4] localedata: Updates for Taiwanese locales [BZ #24409] 
  * Carlos asking for split up and review.
 * Use RFC5424 for syslog (Adhemerval)
  * Adhemerval: Need to review upstream systemd thread.
 * linux: Add new syscalls
  * Added 12 syscalls.
  * Carlos: Do we need man pages for these?
  * Adhemerval: I think all of them have man pages.
  * man-pages currently slow to update.
   * Waiting for Alejandro to have access to tree?
 * Predictable ELF destructor ordering
  * Florian to repost.

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Cheers,
Carlos.