On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: > > Tom Evans a écrit : > > > When will this version be moved into stable/Etch? > > > > This version (or a later one) will move to stable for Lenny, but will > > never move to Etch, as it is now a released version. > > Somewhere in the past there was a very simple patch (look for "not_cancel") > that worked for the 2.3 release of the glibc (Tom wrote that): > > "If I simply change (in linuxthreads/sysdep/unix/sysv/linux/not-cancel.h) > from: > > # define waitpid_not_cancel(pid, stat_loc, options) \ > INLINE_SYSCALL (osf_wait4, 4, pid, stat_loc, options, NULL) > > to: > > # define waitpid_not_cancel(pid, stat_loc, options) \ > wait4( pid, stat_loc, options, NULL ) > > all is well - I understand the performance benefits of the inlining, > but since x86 is NPTL anyway, perhaps this is an okay solution? > > I'm guessing that there is an Alpha-related optimizer bug perhaps? > Or that the inline_syscall4 in sysdep/unix/alpha/sysdep.h is somehow > broken?" > Why was this patch never included for stable? Because we weren't aware it existed ? Because no alpha machine is available to developers for a year now ? You know we're not semi gods with an echelon trigger on any glibc patch that floats in the intarweb. But if the patch is _indeed_ that simple, I truly believe we could make it into etch-r1. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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