Re: cancelable system() function for PPC

Jakub Jelinek <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Mar 2003 05:54:24 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.phil
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:12:02PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> I had tst-cancel7 failing on PPC32 because we didn't have a
> PPC-specific version of the system() function which is cancelable.
> The patch below adds a sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/system.c file
> to glibc.  It just references the x86 version.  With this, tst-cancel7
> passes.
> 
> Franz, what do you think of this patch?

You need to define __ASSUME_CLONE_THREAD_FLAGS in kernel-features.h
(>= 2.5.64 like on IA-64 and s390*?).

	Jakub