* Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:08:45 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:32:50PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> >
> > > Why not add support for the missing functions (on_exit, getsid,
> > > psignal and getline) to Bionic instead of perf?
> >
> > Many vendors need to target existing Android platforms and
> > don't have the luxury of waiting for code to get through
> > Google review and then land on devices between 6 months in
> > the future and never. The embedded world is dysfunctional in
> > a whole bunch of ways.
>
> So add a small library and link with -lstuffandroidforgot.
> That's basically how the FSF dealt with all the proprietary
> Unix library messes.
>
> Come to think of it call the library "integrated build runtime
> environment" and you can like with -libre ;)
>
> It's also going to be far more maintainable and generically
> useful for porting tools from GNU to 'droid userspace.
Well, you should see the uglies Git has to support Windows ;-)
Anyway, I'm not against making perf work on Android in
principle, it is Obviously Useful (tm).
Thanks,
Ingo
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