Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: don't assume getdents exists

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:36:35PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> New Linux ports are using a standard syscall list that does not include
> deprecated syscalls where 64-bit clean alternatives exist. As a result,
> on arm64, __NR_getdents is undefined, resulting in xfsdump failing to
> build.
> 
> To avoid that, in the case where __NR_getdents is unset in unistd.h,
> avoid building the fallback path entirely, since
> __ASSUME_GETDENTS64_SYSCALL will be true, the SYS_getdents64 case will
> be the primary (and only) path used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
> 
> --- a/common/getdents.c
> +++ b/common/getdents.c

Oh, how that code makes my eyes bleed. :/

> @@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ extern int __have_no_getdents64;
>  # ifndef SYS_getdents64
>  #  define SYS_getdents64 __NR_getdents64
>  # endif
> +# ifndef __NR_getdents
> +#  define __ONLY_GETDENTS64_SYSCALL     1
> +# endif
>  #endif
>  
>  
> @@ -207,6 +210,13 @@ getdents_wrap (int fd, char *buf, size_t nbytes)
>  # endif
>      }
>  #endif
> +/* Newer Linux ports are not adding deprecated syscalls, so to avoid compile
> + * failures since SYS_getdents will be undefined, we check for that and only
> + * build the fall-back case if SYS_getdents is defined. We know that
> + * __ASSUME_GETDENTS64_SYSCALL is set, since __NR_getdents64 must exist on
> + * those platforms.
> + */
> +#ifndef __ONLY_GETDENTS64_SYSCALL
>    {
>      size_t red_nbytes;
>      struct kernel_dirent *skdp, *kdp;
> @@ -265,4 +275,5 @@ getdents_wrap (int fd, char *buf, size_t nbytes)
>      }
>  
>    return (char *) dp - buf;
> +#endif
>  }

It's not pretty - but that code has already broken the ugly stick so
it isn't making the situation any worse.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

_______________________________________________
xfs mailing list
xfs@oss.sgi.com
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs