On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:29:40PM +0100, Uwe Schindler wrote: > Wonderful, tested the new -generic images on a SRM machine - works > still perfectly. And thanks for your work to get prctl working! Now I > can start programs that flood my logs with unaligned traps simply > with "prctl --unaligned=silent <cmd>". Or you could start them with prctl --unaligned=signal, and then report bugs about the unaligned traps ;) Anyway, I see a bug report has been filed now requesting that alpha be added to the arch list for prctl. > Now I am very happy with alpha support, the only thing is the problem > with multithreaded apps (the bug in glibc that creates defunct > processes)! Is there any news about that? This is very annoying > because there is a patch available for that since about 3-4 months!!! > Why is nobody able to apply this patch to glibc without discussing > all the time about pros and cons that does not matter? Sorry, to you have a pointer to the patch for this? I don't think there are any alpha porters actively involved in the glibc packaging right now; I guess there ought to be, but so far alpha has generally been reliable enough that there hasn't been a need. :/ Of course, I'm sure even with commit access I can't apply it without figuring out what pros and cons *do* matter, so you might want to spell out which ones you believe don't matter :) > Or the other chance to fix that: What about NPTL - are the buildd's > now linux2.6 and can compile NPTL libc's? I think we have 2.6 on the buildds now, but I don't know what the plans are for NPTL. We can't reasonably make a complete switch to NPTL-only until we know what the upgrade path from sarge will look like, or until after etch's release; there are already problems with circular deps between the kernels and the initramfs tools, so we need to plan carefully any changes to this area. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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