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Re: Build-Depends



On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:18:03AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:09:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > That was libtricks, which was never stable enough and removed again
> > at some point..
> 
> joost once told me that he believed that putting a wrapper around just
> the open and exec* calls should be safe; it was just that all of the
> functionality of libtricks together made it too much and caused
> breakages.
> 

That is what auto-apt seems to do. It wrapps open, open64, execv*, and also
"access", and some weird (for me) *xstat* functions.

OTOH, Ben's dpkg-genbuilddeps handles the vfork problem mentioned
before wrapping vfork and actually using the fork system call from it,
so it should be safer than using a plain strace, I guess.

   Enrique.



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