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Re: sparc build broken...
From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
> So, you couldn't be bothered to test my branch last week when I said
> it needed sparc testing, but you're right on it when I merge it
> in. ;-)
Sorry, was busy with compiler/openssl/kernel/binutils/etc. stuff :-)
> The problem is that there is no __getdirentries at all in Linux. There
> is only the public getdirentries, which is a cheesy wrapper for the
> difference between the BSD getdirentries and the Linux getdents. Sorry
> for the confusion.
>
> I just committed an untested change to use __getdents directly instead,
> which saves a pointless lseek syscall. If that doesn't fix it, you'll
> have to do some investigation on the sparc build.
Aha, that makes it clearer now. I'll test your commit and make any
corrections if needed.
Thanks!