Bug#387498: Unable to reproduce - mips/mipsel? 2.4/2.6 kernel difference?

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I've tried to look into this on my mips machine, but all seems to work
> as expected:
> 
> steve@mallet:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/libc6/changelog.Debian.gz 
> steve@mallet:~$ cat >t.c
> int
> main(int argc,char * argv[]) {return system(argv[1]);}
> steve@mallet:~$ cc -g t.c -o t
> steve@mallet:~$ ./t "echo g"
> g
> steve@mallet:~$ cc -g -pg t.c -o t
> steve@mallet:~$ ./t "echo g"
> g
> steve@mallet:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep Version:
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-4
> 
> One difference to point out is that I'm using a 2.6 kernel on this
> machine:
> steve@mallet:~$ uname -a
> Linux mallet 2.6.16-1-r5k-ip32 #1 Mon Apr 3 18:39:05 UTC 2006 mips64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> which might explain it. I don't have any mipsen running 2.4 atm. Camm,
> can you still reproduce this?
> 
> Ah, hang on - you reported this on vaughan, which is mips*el*. It
> seems to be locked down atm, so I can't take a look myself atm on
> there...

I couldn't reproduce it on mipsel/unstable with 2.4.27 kernel.
Camm, can you try gdb and/or strace on the testcase?


Thiemo