Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Fri Jul 14, 2006 at 12:28:34PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> Unfortunately, a lot programs out there are using page.h, and a lot of 
> people are using that in their programs. The 2 program I know for sure 
> that use page.h are glibc and util-linux.

util-linux should be using getpagesize() or sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)
from the C library.  And libc should be getting the page size
within ldso (or _start for static apps) by parsing the AT_PAGESZ
entry from the ELF auxiliary vector.  Should that be 0 (i.e.
because the kernel is horribly broken) then and only then should
libc fall back to guessing, i.e. a page size of 4k.  A quick check
shows that glibc, uClibc, and klibc all get this right.  But you
are right, that util-linux looks to have this wrong in a few
places.  I expect fixing the kernel headers will get that fixed
in short order.  :-)

 -Erik

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