From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/strace: disable mpers support
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 09:36:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200908073601.GV14354@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200908085449.35e7ec6f@windsurf.hq.k.grp>
Thomas, All,
On 2020-09-08 08:54 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 00:56:55 +0200
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> 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.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 20:24 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/strace: disable mpers support Heiko Thiery
2020-09-07 22:56 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-09-08 6:54 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-09-08 7:36 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2020-09-08 7:46 ` Baruch Siach
2020-09-08 7:51 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-09-11 21:33 ` Peter Korsgaard
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