Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU crash with Fedora Core 2

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

I cannot accept this patch: it breaks qemu-fast with all old libcs. The 
good solution is to use a specific sigaction call which directly makes 
the sigaction Linux system call.

Fabrice.

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 01:47 +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> 
>>qemu: relocation error: qemu: symbol __libc_sigaction, version GLIBC_PRIVATE 
>>not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>>
>>Googling this error brings a link to a redhat 7.3 bug ;)
> 
> 
> __libc_sigaction is a glibc private function. Explicitly linking to it
> is an application bug. 
> 
> I believe it's done to work around an old linuxthreads-related SDL bug
> which doesn't actually exist any more.
> 
> --- qemu-0.5.4/vl.c.orig	2004-05-02 11:58:59.852195291 +0100
> +++ qemu-0.5.4/vl.c	2004-05-02 11:59:37.856959391 +0100
> @@ -56,18 +56,6 @@
>  #define memalign(align, size) malloc(size)
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SDL
> -/* SDL use the pthreads and they modify sigaction. We don't
> -   want that. */
> -#if __GLIBC__ > 2 || (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 2)
> -extern void __libc_sigaction();
> -#define sigaction(sig, act, oact) __libc_sigaction(sig, act, oact)
> -#else
> -extern void __sigaction();
> -#define sigaction(sig, act, oact) __sigaction(sig, act, oact)
> -#endif
> -#endif /* CONFIG_SDL */
> -
>  #include "disas.h"
>  
>  #include "exec-all.h"
> 
>