Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Make epoll_create1 test work around SPARC glibc bug

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 19 April 2011 21:36, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I just picked a define without much thought. A more specific
> one would be flags parameter of epoll_create1(), like EPOLL_CLOEXEC or
> EPOLL_NONBLOCK. We don't use them now since the target system call
> argument is passed untranslated to host, but that is actually not
> correct, since the bit definitions could be different. So checking for
> one of those should be OK.

Unfortunately the header file on the system in question defines
both EPOLL_CLOEXEC and EPOLL_NONBLOCK even though it doesn't
prototype epoll_create1(). So this idea won't work.
The bug we are effectively trying to work around is the one fixed
by this libc patch:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2010-08/msg00128.html

The only problem with the header is that it doesn't declare the
function, so the only way to detect it is to do something that
will fail if the function isn't declared, like compiling -Werror.

-- PMM