[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/fakeroot: use TCP for msg passing

Matthew Weber matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
Fri Sep 13 19:10:47 UTC 2019


Yann,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 12:51 PM Matthew Weber
<matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>
> Yann,
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 3:33 PM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Matt, All,
> >
> > On 2019-07-11 14:36 -0500, Matt Weber spake thusly:
> > > fakeroot can be built to either use SYSV IPC or TCP for message passing.
> > >
> > > Cases for which the SYSV IPC version fails or causes problems but for
> > > which fakeroot-tcp has been observed to work well include the items
> > > listed below.
> > >
> > >   * Multithreaded applications (using pthread)
> >
> > I know you used the commit log from upstream, but that was written 12
> > year ago now. 12 years ago NPTL was still new-ish, and LinuxThreads were
> > still alive. Is it still true that fakeroot misbehaves when using
> > pthreads at all nowadays?
>
> Unsure.  Maybe better to just refer to the project readme instead of
> stating it in the commit?

I forgot to note, I was able to find a upstream for this one.  I
emailed Clint Adams at debian and he pointed me at doing a pull
request here: https://salsa.debian.org/clint/fakeroot/tree/upstream
I'll get something started this weekend so the configure time check of
sysv ipc is upstream.

Matt



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