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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have some big problems with the current abilist implementation. glibc always allowed to compile against different kernel headers and have the resulting binary reflect the kernel the headers are taken from. This can cut down on runtime tests for functionality which is known to not be available since an old kernel is used. The abilist check causes all such builds to fail. Syscalls which are listed only in syscalls.list and are not available in the kernel headers will have no code created for them. This in turn obviously results in differences to the interface. I see two ways out: - - make the abilist check optional and/or figure out how to determine when the tests can be made mandatory. E.g., if the kernel header version is more recent than x.y.z, make the tests mandatory. - - create stubs for the syscalls which are not announced in the kernel headers. I probably have a preference for the second solution. Any volunteer to hack something? - -- - --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+f1jV2ijCOnn/RHQRAq93AKCzVJcJDhg5CE/jy5UmvVZusBrD5QCgneZk YdoDceoehTxT7UyPbfjaoKQ= =2/qU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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