[klibc] Recent kexec-tools and klibc on x86/x86-64

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Apr 22 20:36:44 PDT 2013


On 04/22/2013 03:39 AM, Andrea Adami wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> trying to update to the latest kexec version I'm blocked by the lack
> of  basename() and vfscanf() in klibc.
> I've noticed it only recently because I'm building almost exclusively for arm.
> 
> This commit intruduced the issue:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c?id=3bf0213789d56054f601c5a06372f78567aacdd9
> 
> Has anybody already a fix? Suggestions?
> 

With the latest changes to klibc it is probably possible to implement
vfscanf, although it will increase the size of the scanf engine.

basename() is trivial.

	-hpa




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