Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having looked into this, one problem is that it won't work with the > > "libc" and "nptl" builds of glibc that Debian does, because these use > > "int $0x80" directly. It would only work with the "i686" build. So > > this won't work with Linux 2.4 or with pre-686 processors. > > Correct. It wouldn't anyway; Linux 2.4 did not have a vsyscall.
>From my reading of the code, glibc will use a vsyscall entry point if AT_SYSINFO is defined in the auxv, and this doesn't necessarily require Linux 2.6. > > As an alternative, I could build Plash from the NPTL build of glibc: > > the relevant calls are already not inlined. That would involve > > changing the patch to put the NPTL object files into libc6-pic > > instead. But it would require Linux 2.6. > > Huh? Then why did your patch need to modify NPTL? NPTL inlines some but not all of the not-cancel.h calls. I didn't need them all un-inlined, but for completeness I un-inlined all of them, in case I needed to replace these calls in the future. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
