[OE-core] [PATCH] pseudo: Add statx support to fix fedora30 issues

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Nov 7 20:52:41 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 14:34 -0600, Seebs wrote:
> On Thu,  7 Nov 2019 20:04:44 +0000
> Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Modern distros (e.g. fedora30) are starting to use the new statx()
> > syscall through the newly exposed glibc wrapper function in
> > software
> > like coreutils (e.g. the ls command). Add support to intercept this
> > to pseudo.
> 
> I think this should be okay. If there's no real statx() wrapper, the
> real_statx() call probably fails, but also things probably won't have
> thought it existed/worked.

That was my thinking...

> Worth double-checking that things still run with this in place on a
> system that doesn't have a statx wrapper, when configuring and
> building things like coreutils that will check for it.

coreutils looks to be using a standard configure check for the statx
function.

Even in OE, we'd not want to configure/compile with pseudo loaded and
active so I think we should be ok...

Cheers,

Richard





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