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Re: [PATCH] rethink removal of xattr syscall stubs (for now)

To: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rethink removal of xattr syscall stubs (for now)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:05:06 +0000
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:10:58PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It turns out (*cough*) that we use an export file with libattr,
> that I completely forgot about, which specifies the *xattr calls
> as part of the ATTR_1 interface.  This patch reverts the syscall
> stub removal patch from before, includes Lennerts patch to fix
> the original problem ARM EABI, and I'll go think some more about
> how to properly fix this (I think we'll need an ATTR_2 interface
> in the end here, Andreas?)
> 
> Please apply as an interim fix to the original problem and to
> the accidental new problems its caused, and I'll push through a
> new patch in the new year.

There is a way to re-export symbols you imported from another
library with symbol versioning.  That how for example libpthread
works on recent Solaris versions.  I'll find out how exactly that
should be implemented.


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