[PATCH] update error codes and signal numbers for hppa/parisc architecture

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Tue Nov 11 23:36:21 UTC 2014


On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:52:44PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> Dear strace developers,
> 
> can you please apply this patch to strace in git?
> It updates some error codes and signal numbers for the hppa (parisc)
> architecture.
> 
> There are two important changes in here:
> 
> 1. EWOULDBLOCK has been up to kernel 3.14 errorcode #246. Since we had
> problems with EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN, this was changes in kernel 3.14.
> 
> 2. Starting with kernel 3.18 we changed some signal numbers in such a
> way, that we end up with SIGRTMIN == 32, which brings hppa in sync with
> other linux ports. This was necessary to be able to support systemd on
> hppa.
> 
> Both were incompatible changes (which basically broke our ABI), but both
> were necessary on our port.

Since our policy is to follow the kernel, I've applied your patch.
I wonder how do you merge ABI breaking changes into the kernel, though.


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