Bug#172545: transmeta longrun fails with unstable libc6 (pread/pwrite)

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:09:42AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.1-5
> 
> i have a Fujitsu P-Series laptop (TM5800 CPU @ 800MHz) running Linux
> 2.4.20 (debian) with devfs, CONFIG_MCRUSOE, CONFIG_X86_MSR, and
> CONFIG_X86_CPUID.  longrun is a tool to change the settings of
> Transmeta CPUs.
> 
> longrun works fine with libc6 2.2.5-14.3.  When i try upgrading to
> 2.3.1-5 then i get a failure at the first call to read_cpuid()
> in check_cpu(), line 186.  This suggests that pread got broken
> somehow in the new libc.

Oy. I don't have access to a transmeta CPU to do any testing or
troubleshooting on this.  Do you have the skills to look into it more?
If not, I don't know how quickly this will be gotten to.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey