Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] Make _sysctl less broken

[Fabrice Bellard]

Applied.

Fabrice.

Paul Brook wrote:
> Qemu doesn't currently implement the _sysctl linux syscall, and complains 
> loudly when it is used.
>
> For some reason my Debian arm-linux chroot calls this syscall extensively, and 
> the "Unsupported syscall" errors were causing problems.
>
> The patch below makes it always return ENOTDIR. The sysctl names vary between 
> kernel versions, so user applications should already gracefully accept this.
>
> Paul
>
> Index: syscall.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/qemu/qemu/linux-user/syscall.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.50
> diff -u -p -r1.50 syscall.c
> --- syscall.c 19 Jun 2004 16:59:03 -0000 1.50
> +++ syscall.c 11 Sep 2004 18:35:28 -0000
> @@ -2600,7 +2624,9 @@ long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, 
>          ret = get_errno(fdatasync(arg1));
>          break;
>      case TARGET_NR__sysctl:
> -        goto unimplemented;
> +        /* We don't implement this, but ENODIR is always a safe
> +           return value. */
> +        return -ENOTDIR;
>      case TARGET_NR_sched_setparam:
>          {
>              struct sched_param *target_schp = (void *)arg2;
>
>
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