Re: [PATCH] m68k: Merge mmu and non-mmu versions of sys_call_table

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 22:39, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> Â> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Â> > Did you check the macros in unistd to see if they match the
> Â> > actual table? I guess it would be a good time to comment out
> Â> > the ones that are not implemented in either of the two ABIs.
> Â>
> Â> Like this?
> Â>
> Â> warning: #warning syscall pselect6 not implemented
> Â> warning: #warning syscall ppoll not implemented
> Â> warning: #warning syscall recvmmsg not implemented
> Â>
> Â> Do we need pselect6 and ppoll? I have vague memories not requiring it.
>
> They close user-space race conditions, so you want them.

So do you recommend to backport the wiring up of pselect6/ppoll to -stable?
We always had their _NR_* defines, so I guess glibc was always compiled
with pselect6/ppoll support, and will use it if it's present.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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