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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Cc: sandeen@redhat.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfsdump: don't assume getdents exists
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 22:58:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131107065835.GA24345@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106213635.GC24712@redacted.bos.redhat.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.

Seems like we could drop this mess of a file entirely and just rely
on getdents64 from glibc.  The raison d'etre of that file appears to
support 64 bit getdents before glibc really supported it, and I don't
think we'll have to support such old configurations anymore.  I'll give
it a quick spin and see how that works out.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 21:36 [PATCH] xfsdump: don't assume getdents exists Kyle McMartin
2013-11-06 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 22:56   ` Kyle McMartin
2013-11-06 23:17     ` Dave Chinner
2013-11-06 23:19       ` Kyle McMartin
2013-11-07  6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-11-07  7:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-10 14:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-12-10 19:50   ` Kyle McMartin
2014-03-22  5:12   ` Kyle McMartin
2014-03-22  8:53     ` Dave Chinner

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