Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fcntl64 fix

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On [Tue, 20.03.2007 14:03], Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> >>What are you using as a test app?
> >
> >I got error when runing Debian's apt-get and tried to fix it.
> 
> OK, that's what got me started on this one, but I switched to using the
> ltp-kernel-test package for a more comprehensive set of tests once I got
> past that first eabi structure change.
> 
> >>I think that remapping the constants
> >>is needed, but I'm just curious how we seem to be coming up with different
> >>parts of the fix when we have the same target/host combination.
> >
> >I'm not sure that I understand you...
> 
> On the arm/x86_64 combination, I think the host & target cmd values are
> the same, so the remapping is a noop.

No. Remap is needed:

$ uname -m; echo -e '#include <fcntl.h>\nF_GETLK64' | cpp | tail -1
x86_64
5

$ uname -m; echo -e '#include <fcntl.h>\nF_GETLK64' | cpp | tail -1
armv5l
12

Same for F_SETLK64 and F_SETLKW64.

> It may be needed for other
> combinations though. Some architectures have very different values for
> constants like this in their ABI.
> 
> I was trying to understand how your fix made apt-get/dpkg happy, or if
> you were just using a different app that was hitting a different case
> for fcntl().
> 
> 
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> 
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