Re: Beware of new udev
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> On 26/09/11 19:20, Michael Cree wrote:
>> On 26/09/11 06:42, Uwe Schindler wrote:
>>> Do you have linux-image-3.0-alpha-generic ? I am also upgrading, but want to
>>> make sure I don't break my udev, but maybe it works with 3.0 already?
>>
>> Yes, I have linux-image-3.0-alpha-generic, nevertheless I was actually
>> running a self-compiled kernel.org 3.0.4 kernel.
>>
>> I suspect it is either a libc6.1 issue or a kernel issue. Udev is
>> calling the access4() function which is returning the 'Not implemented'
>> error code. I note that the eglibc source has a test for kernel version
>> 2.6.33-rc4 for the access4 kernel syscall.
>
> Oops. I meant to say the accept4 syscall.
>
> It is not implemented in the Alpha kernel! I don't know how we missed
> that one.
>
> And glibc source has a comment in the file
> ./sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/kernel-features.h that the accept4
> syscall is in the Alpha kernel since version 2.6.33-rc1. The author of
> that comment (who will know who he is) was sadly misinformed.
Strange. I'm looking through git for some indication of why I'd have
thought that, and I can't find anything.
*shurg*
Matt
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