From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 09:36:01 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/strace: disable mpers support In-Reply-To: <20200908085449.35e7ec6f@windsurf.hq.k.grp> References: <20200907202410.12228-1-heiko.thiery@gmail.com> <20200907225655.GU14354@scaer> <20200908085449.35e7ec6f@windsurf.hq.k.grp> Message-ID: <20200908073601.GV14354@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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" 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'