David Miller wrote: > From: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:50:30 +0100 > >> What we're missing here is a probably important piece: >> >> If dpkg-query is running during a build, it is running in a fakeroot >> environment. I've straced that, see the attachment. >> >> What I find in the strace are at least several clones, which is the >> point where aptitude -u crashed according to the straces in >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433187#102 > > Thanks for the fakeroot trace. > > I am pretty sure the clone()'s we see here are just normal > fork()'s, in both the fakeroot's dpkg-query and the aptitude > case.
I just grepped trough the source of aptitude, there's only one fork, but that one should not be executed if aptitude has been started as root. If it is of any use for you I can figure out which piece of code resulted in the call to clone, or figure out which piece of code results results in the use of futexes there. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
