From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baruch Siach Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:46:58 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/strace: disable mpers support In-Reply-To: <20200908073601.GV14354@scaer> References: <20200907202410.12228-1-heiko.thiery@gmail.com> <20200907225655.GU14354@scaer> <20200908085449.35e7ec6f@windsurf.hq.k.grp> <20200908073601.GV14354@scaer> Message-ID: <87363szp59.fsf@tarshish> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Yann On Tue, Sep 08 2020, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On 2020-09-08 08:54 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly: >> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 00:56:55 +0200 >> "Yann E. MORIN" wrote: > [--SNIP--] >> > However, some systems may very well run a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit >> > userland. In that case, strace should be able to interpret the syscalls >> > made by the process and the replies sent by the kernel, and those are >> > done in the bitness of the process, not of the kernel. >> > >> > So, we always want an strace that is of the same bitness as the >> > userland. And so I indeed think we do not need this ill-named >> > multi-personality support of strace. >> > >> > Note that some people may however run such multi-bitness systems. But in >> > that case, they had to build two userlands, a 32-bit one and a 64-bit >> > one, and somehow aggregate the two after the fact. In that case, they >> > would bear the responsibility to carry an strace for each bitness. >> >> So, is this an Acked-by for this patch ? :-) > > It would, but I'd still like to have some feedback from Baruch, who had > initial added of the mpers option, so may have further explanations to > provide. I only touched mpers (commit fc0d31caeedba) to fix build failure I (re)introduced in a previous commit (10883729419). strace enables mpers by default. I am fine with removing mpers support entirely. baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch at tkos.co.il - tel: +972.52.368.4656, http://www.tkos.co.il -