Bug#640922: pu: package eglibc/2.11.2-10 (Was: Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts)

2011-09-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 07:10 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:40:39PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: would you consider the attached patches for a squeeze point release for eglibc? The reason behind this

Bug#640922: pu: package eglibc/2.11.2-10 (Was: Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts)

2011-09-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: would you consider the attached patches for a squeeze point release for eglibc? The reason behind this request is: on systems with a lot of mounts, statvfs64() libc function takes a huge amount of times since it needs to parse

Bug#640922: pu: package eglibc/2.11.2-10 (Was: Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts)

2011-09-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:40:39PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:31 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: would you consider the attached patches for a squeeze point release for eglibc? The reason behind this request is: on systems with a lot of mounts, statvfs64() libc

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:30:17AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi Aurelien, thanks for your reply and sorry for mine being so late On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:56, Aurelien Jarno aure...@debian.org wrote: As always, when the libc doesn't have the information from a kernel syscall, it

Bug#640922: pu: package eglibc/2.11.2-10 (Was: Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts)

2011-09-08 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: release.debian.org User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu Severity: normal Dear SRM, would you consider the attached patches for a squeeze point release for eglibc? The reason behind this request is: on systems with a lot of mounts, statvfs64() libc function takes a

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-07 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Aurelien, thanks for your reply and sorry for mine being so late On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 21:56, Aurelien Jarno aure...@debian.org wrote: As always, when the libc doesn't have the information from a kernel syscall, it needs to get it another way, and it often ends up using /proc or /sys as

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 09:54, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: (a) APT sometimes needs to get the partition table and looks for /etc/mtab    and /proc/mount, the latter missing the s at the end. This should    be fixed -- and once it is, APT would read the file itself as well    in

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-02 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:33:33AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 09:54, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: (a) APT sometimes needs to get the partition table and looks for /etc/mtab    and /proc/mount, the latter missing the s at the end. This should    be fixed

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi, On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 16:38, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: normal Hello, I found this behavior: # apt-get --version | head -n1 apt 0.8.10.3 for amd64 compiled on Apr

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-09-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:54:26AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 16:38, Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: normal Hello, I found this behavior:

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-08-31 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: normal Hello, I found this behavior: # apt-get --version | head -n1 apt 0.8.10.3 for amd64 compiled on Apr 15 2011 07:35:31 # strace apt-get autoremove 21 | grep mounts open(/proc/mounts, O_RDONLY) = 22 (it also happens on the sid vrsion). This

Bug#639897: Please don't check /proc/mounts

2011-08-31 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: normal Hello, I found this behavior: # apt-get --version | head -n1 apt 0.8.10.3 for amd64 compiled on Apr 15 2011 07:35:31 # strace apt-get autoremove 21 | grep mounts