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Re: glibc 2.0.110 failures - with Linux 2.2.0pre7
- To: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.0.110 failures - with Linux 2.2.0pre7
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Date: 15 Jan 1999 17:35:36 +0100
- Cc: libc-alpha@cygnus.com, Gary Goodger <gmg@pe.net>, Eirikur Hjartarson <eiki@inet.uni2.dk>
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>>>>> 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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