Bug#555405: libc6-dev: preadv()/pwritev() prototypes are broken on i386 with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

2009-11-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.10.1-5 Severity: important Any glibc since introduction of preadv/pwritev can corrupt data on 32bit systems when a program is compiled with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. This is most important for qemu/kvm for which this system call was introduces, leading to massive data

Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

2005-11-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:17:26PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > It's only less effort "all around" because you wouldn't have to do any > of it. Don't you think that someone would have fixed this > well-documented limitation in the last eight or so years if there was a > practical fix? There

Bug#321718: Upgrade caused many libs to complain about "executable stack"

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:59:17PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > - if (errno != ENOMEM) /* Unexpected failure mode. */ > + if (errno != (ENOMEM | EFAULT)) /* Unexpected failure > mode. */ I don't think errno will ever have the value of (ENOMEM | EFAULT). Shoul

Re: future libc6-sparcv9 and libc6-sparcv9b support

2005-08-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:51:45PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > BTW, if we move to glibc 2.4 series in future, at that time we may > need to drop LT support. It means the traditional pre sparcv9 system > will be also dropped. Is that acceptable direction for sparc users? > (Note that dropping LT

Bug#246689: Surely this is fixed now?

2005-08-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:14:55AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > "PPC libc6 should be built with TLS and NPTL" > We have new enough GCC now, and new glibc. Is this fixed in the current > glibc version in unstable? glibc in sid doesn't seem to provide NTPL yet on ppc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#321969: linux-kernel-headers: Please install the 32-bit 'ppc' kernel headers on the ppc64 architecture

2005-08-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > I've got no idea what you mean here, Christoph, which is funny > since I built the kernel headers packages that Debian's using in the > first place. We don't use glibc-kernheaders. We use a package called > linux-kernel-headers,

Bug#321969: linux-kernel-headers: Please install the 32-bit 'ppc' kernel headers on the ppc64 architecture

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:30:48PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > never use kernel headers from userland. Use glibc-kerneheaders which in > > already does the proper redirecting of /usr/include/asm/ to 32 or 64 bit > > versions depending on whether you're compiling with -m64 or not. > > How do

Bug#321969: linux-kernel-headers: Please install the 32-bit 'ppc' kernel headers on the ppc64 architecture

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:12:28PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Package: linux-kernel-headers > Version: 2.6.13+0rc3-1.1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Please install the 32-bit 'ppc' kernel headers on the ppc64 architecture. There's no ppc64 architecture in debian (yet). Besides that

Bug#320630: libc6-dev: /usr/include/sys/socket.h broken with g++ 4.x

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 09:41:30PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Package: libc6-dev > Version: 2.3.5-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > /usr/include/sys/socket.h has the definitions of SHUT_* in > a anonymous enum. g++ 4 started enforcing C++ standard part > which forbids using anonymous enu

Re: ppc64 biarch toolchain and 64bit powerpc kernels ...

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? Or >

Re: ppc64 biarch toolchain and 64bit powerpc kernels ...

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? Or > should i rely on the ubuntu toolchain, and use that to upload kernels to sid > in the near future ? Together with a statically built procps naturally ? The si

Bug#284449: [patch/hppa] fix utimes() for hppa

2004-12-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:52:03PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > tag 284449 +patch > thanks > > This patch fixes the utimes() problem on hppa -- the cvs patch applied > to debian's glibc has a bug in it. tested against 2.3.2.ds1-19 And while you're at it - what about submitting a kernel patch to

Bug#273605: libc6: Should provide kernel AIO support (rtkaio)

2004-10-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:11:11AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > Agreed. In the latest -mm tree, patches from AIO project are included > that can do buffered I/O, but that does not still have aio fsync. > It's sure 2.6.9-rc does not have such patches. There's no aio support in current -mm > I gu

Bug#273605: libc6: Should provide kernel AIO support (rtkaio)

2004-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:47:25PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-16 > Severity: wishlist > > Recent versions of SuSE (e.g. SuSE 9.1, SLES 9) and Red Hat (RHEL 3AS, > Fedora Core >= 1) distributions provide a support library with glibc to > allow users to make u

Bug#267205: libc6-dev: /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h uses non-portable whitespace

2004-08-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:01:12PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > The C standard does not require this, nor does any cpp in the real > > world for 10 years, so IMHO you should rather fix makedepend. > > Correct. ISO C99 6.10 Preprocessing directives, Description: > > A preprocessing direc

Re: Bug#260222: ITP: libmqueue -- POSIX message queues library for Linux

2004-07-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:05:35PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > I don't understand why you think it's bad idea. Until glibc included > mqueue, it was existed as separated library. AFAIK, there is no > application that use mqueue library in main. This means user links > mqueue library with his a

Re: Bug#260222: ITP: libmqueue -- POSIX message queues library for Linux

2004-07-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:05:35PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > I don't understand why you think it's bad idea. Until glibc included > mqueue, it was existed as separated library. AFAIK, there is no > application that use mqueue library in main. This means user links > mqueue library with his a

Bug#231538: *sigh*

2004-03-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:54:45PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Hence, I believe that an upgrade directory is the way to go. The > kernel package should be maintained until sarge is released and > security patches added. Can you patch the i48 instruction emulator into a 2.4.19 kernel? It doesn'

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:56:52AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 24, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Umm, why does you udev package mount a ramfs over /dev? The whole point > Because this makes the package a lot more robust, as there are

Re: about mounting /dev/pts

2004-03-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:00:38AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I forgot a crucial detail about mounting the kernel file systems early > in the boot process: /dev/pts must be mounted after udev has mounted its > own ramfs over /dev, so we will still need two different init script > even after mount

Bug#231972: lkh: /usr/include/linux/ptrace.h buggy

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I assume that all glibc headers should be compilable when using 'gcc > -ansi'. is not part of ANSI C/C++ so this is a broken assumption. Really guys, there's seldomly a reason to use -ansi as you're most probably _not_ trying

Bug#231972: lkh: /usr/include/linux/ptrace.h buggy

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > I assume that all glibc headers should be compilable when using 'gcc > -ansi'. is not part of ANSI C/C++ so this is a broken assumption. Really guys, there's seldomly a reason to use -ansi as you're most probably _not_ trying

Bug#231972: lkh: /usr/include/linux/ptrace.h buggy

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:02:10PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Noticed that ksysguardd includes only to > get PAGE_SIZE. > > other apps seem to use for that? Is using that > ansi safe on all platforms? Both are wrong. Use sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) instead.

Bug#231972: lkh: /usr/include/linux/ptrace.h buggy

2004-02-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 05:02:10PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > Noticed that ksysguardd includes only to > get PAGE_SIZE. > > other apps seem to use for that? Is using that > ansi safe on all platforms? Both are wrong. Use sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Bug#226540: linux-kernel-headers FTBFS on hppa

2004-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:34:26PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Package: linux-kernel-headers > Severity: serious > Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-13 > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=linux-kernel-headers&ver=2.5.999-test7-bk-13&arch=hppa&stamp=1073277157&file=log&as=raw > > Yes, excitin

Bug#226540: linux-kernel-headers FTBFS on hppa

2004-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:34:26PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Package: linux-kernel-headers > Severity: serious > Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-13 > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=linux-kernel-headers&ver=2.5.999-test7-bk-13&arch=hppa&stamp=1073277157&file=log&as=raw > > Yes, excitin

Re: building 2.3.2-4

2003-08-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:30PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > difficulties for the autobuilder. It should also provide some interim > relief for people suffering from fseek() problems with old binaries. Btw, with 2003-08-25 Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * libio/libio.h (_IO_

Bug#206663: glibc: some GNU/KFreeBSD fixes

2003-08-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> > > renamed to "kfreebsd-gnu" in config.guess to distinguish FreeBSD's kernel > > > > > The "k" stands for "kernel of"; I also tend to use "KFreeBSD" informally > > > > Who came up with that? > > Richard Stallman. Oh fsck. So the GNU/Linux brainwashing is now switching to the even more stupi

Bug#204706: How come it works on other distos.

2003-08-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:09:14AM +0200, Robert Lindgren wrote: > If you say it's not supposed to work on Debian, why does win4lin work on Gentoo? > They have been running 2.3.2 far longer than Debian. 2.3.2-2 is not glibc 2.3.2 but more like current CVS. Does it work with Red Hat rawhide? -

Bug#204706: Same binary breakage with compupic and citrix

2003-08-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Rainer Ellinger wrote: > Same with compupic [1] (a static app and probably good choice to try > with) and apparently citrix iac clients [2]. Going back to 2.3.1-17 > solved it for compupic. glibc does not claim binary compatiblity for statically linked b

Bug#189792: libc6: devpts.sh needs to mount devpts even on devfs > 2.5.68

2003-06-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:40:29AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > You have to check the kernel version in this case. There's no way around > it. Or just mount devpts always..

Bug#189792: libc6: devpts.sh needs to mount devpts even on devfs > 2.5.68

2003-06-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:40:29AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > You have to check the kernel version in this case. There's no way around > it. Or just mount devpts always.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#196028: libc6-dev: [hppa] buggy kernel includes cause build failure

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:19:01PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Package: libc6-dev > Version: 2.3.1-17 > Severity: serious > > On hppa there appears to be a bug in /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h > It causes kdemultimedia to fail to build with the following output. This > same code in kdemultimedia c

Bug#196028: libc6-dev: [hppa] buggy kernel includes cause build failure

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:19:01PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > Package: libc6-dev > Version: 2.3.1-17 > Severity: serious > > On hppa there appears to be a bug in /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h > It causes kdemultimedia to fail to build with the following output. This > same code in kdemultimedia c