[klibc] ia64 build failure - no fork or ppoll syscalls in 2.6.16

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Sat Apr 22 10:01:49 PDT 2006


On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:48:19AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Why doesn't IA64 have pselect/ppoll?  (And no, having them exist but 
> returning ENOSYS is the absolutely worst thing you could do.)
>

Likely because adding them requires mildly invasible, non-obvious changes
to the signal paths... I've been trying to add them to PARISC, but
managed to break signal handling in the process... At the moment
both IA64 and PARISC are probably ni_syscall. 



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