Bug#916276: glibc: Please add prelimenary patch to fix regression on qemu-user

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Hi,

On 2020-09-17 21:44, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hello glibc maintainers,
> 
> would you please consider including this patch to unbreak things
> (fix a regression) until the triangle between qemu, Linux and glibc
> has figured out how to best deal with it?

The patch is basically replacing the getdents64 syscall by the getdents
one. This means that applying this patch would make debian differ with
regards to other distributions in the syscalls that are used for the
same binaries. In turns it is likely going to affect binaries that are
using seccomp and only allow the getdents64 and not the getdents one.

I therefore don't think this is not reasonable to include such a fix on
our glibc. It would fix the qemu-user case but likely break random
binaries.

Aurelien

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