Re: Build failing for hurd
Samuel,
Thanks for reply,
I didn't get your reply because I am not hurd mailing list there for my late
respons.
Do I need to report a bug for getting this patched ?
With kind regards,
Bas van den Dikkenberg
> Bas van den Dikkenberg, le Sat 01 Mar 2014 09:17:56 +0000, a écrit :
> > My build of the package burp that I maintain, keeps failing during the test
> failing with these error messages:
> >
> > 2014-02-25 20:53:14: burp[716] Could not get lock
> > /<PKGBUILDDIR>/test/target/var/run/burp.server.pid: Not supported
> > 2014-02-25 20:53:14: burp[716] Could not get lockfile.
> > 2014-02-25 20:53:14: burp[716] Another process is probably running,
> > 2014-02-25 20:53:14: burp[716] or you do not have permissions to write to
> /<PKGBUILDDIR>/test/target/var/run/burp.server.pid.
> >
> > Is the pid system not support on hurd ?
>
> It is supported, otherwise very few applications would run :)
>
> The error is during locking the file. The code is doing lockf(fdlock, F_TLOCK,
> 0), but the Hurd doesn't have lockf record locking yet, only whole file lock.
> That being said, burp is actually locking the whole file, current position being
> 0 and length being 0. We can probably patch glibc in
> sysdeps/mach/hurd/fcntl.c when whence is SEEK_CUR to read the current
> position and test whether it is 0.
>
> Samuel
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