Re: Does e2fsprogs-1.26 work on mips?

H . J . Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:11:17 -0800


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:00:05AM -0800, Peter Hartley wrote:
> H J Lu wrote:
> > What are you talking about? It doesn't matter which kernel header
> > is used. glibc doesn't even use /usr/include/asm/resource.h nor
> > should any user space applications.
>
> It's not about /usr/include/asm/resource.h, it's about
> /usr/include/asm/unistd.h, where the syscall numbers are defined.
>
> This is presumably what the "#ifdef __NR_ugetrlimit" in
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getrlimit.c is meant to be testing against --
> nothing in the glibc-2.2.5 distribution itself defines that symbol. Surely a
> Linux glibc doesn't compile without the target system's linux/* and asm/*
> headers?
>
> 2.4's /usr/include/asm/unistd.h defines __NR_ugetrlimit but 2.2's doesn't.
>

I see. I think glibc should either require 2.4 header files under
<asm/*.h> and <linux/*.h>, or define __NR_ugetrlimit if it is not
defined.

H.J.
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