On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:25:34PM +0200, Joerg Wendland wrote: > Hi, > > fam (of which I am the maintainer) stopped working properly on PPC (see > the bug report from the subject). I suspect this has something to do > with the way glibc handles SIGRT* signals. As of libc6 2.3.1 I head to > link fam against -lrt and -lpthread for those signals to work, and it > did work. Now the new and broken revision of fam is compiled against > libc6 2.3.2 so I am wondering if it could have been a change in the > behaviour of SIGRT* and the librt and libpthread libraries on powerpc > that introduced this breakage. Maybe it could relate to #207806, but I > do not exactly know. Is there a glibc maintainer/hacker who could > clarify this for me, please?
I couldn't find any technical information about the problem in any of those messages. There was a behavior change: SIGRTMIN is no longer 32, but the lowest signal number not reserved by glibc. But that's not likely to be your problem. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
