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SubjectRe: Does e2fsprogs-1.26 work on mips?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:31:59AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:28:19AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> >
> > The problem is not all arches use (~0UL) for RLIM_INFINITY.
> >
> > What should we do about it? I know e2fsprogs-1.26 doesn't work on mips
> > nor alpha because of this. I don't think it works on sparc.
>
> Yeah, I forced the release of e2fsprogs 1.27 because of this, back on
> March 8th. That was my fault, and I fixed it as soon as I discovered
> it. (1.26 was released on Feb 3, and I released 1.27 on March 8th).
>
> In e2fsprogs 1.27, I do the following:
>
> #ifdef __linux__
> #undef RLIM_INFINITY
> #if (defined(__alpha__) || ((defined(__sparc__) || defined(__mips__)) && (SIZEOF_LONG == 4)))
> #define RLIM_INFINITY ((unsigned long)(~0UL>>1))
> #else
> #define RLIM_INFINITY (~0UL)
> #endif
>
> Basically because I can't depend on the RLIM_INFINITY being "right".
> (Remember, I'm trying to make sure that e2fsprogs can compile on any
> arbitrary glibc, and then run on any other-not-necessarily-the-same
> glibc, which gets "challenging".)
>

The current glibc has no problem. You can just use RLIM_INFINITY
defined in GLIBC, not the kernel. The same static e2fsck binary will
work fine on both new and old kernels. But I don't know if you want
to pull the full setrlimit implemenation from glibc. I am enclosing
the i386 version here.



H.J.
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/* Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.

The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA. */

#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>

#include <sysdep.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <shlib-compat.h>
#include <bp-checks.h>

#include "kernel-features.h"

extern int __syscall_setrlimit (unsigned int resource,
const struct rlimit *__unbounded rlimits);
extern int __syscall_ugetrlimit (unsigned int resource,
const struct rlimit *__unbounded rlimits);
extern int __new_setrlimit (enum __rlimit_resource resource,
const struct rlimit *__unboundedrlimits);

/* Linux 2.3.25 introduced a new system call since the types used for
the limits are now unsigned. */
#if defined __NR_ugetrlimit && !defined __ASSUME_NEW_GETRLIMIT_SYSCALL
extern int __have_no_new_getrlimit; /* from getrlimit.c */
#endif

int
__new_setrlimit (enum __rlimit_resource resource, const struct rlimit *rlimits)
{
#ifdef __ASSUME_NEW_GETRLIMIT_SYSCALL
return INLINE_SYSCALL (setrlimit, 2, resource, CHECK_1 (rlimits));
#else
struct rlimit rlimits_small;

# ifdef __NR_ugetrlimit
if (__have_no_new_getrlimit == 0)
{
/* Check if the new ugetrlimit syscall exists. We must do this
first because older kernels don't reject negative rlimit
values in setrlimit. */
int result = INLINE_SYSCALL (ugetrlimit, 2, resource, __ptrvalue (&rlimits_small));
if (result != -1 || errno != ENOSYS)
/* The syscall exists. */
__have_no_new_getrlimit = -1;
else
/* The syscall does not exist. */
__have_no_new_getrlimit = 1;
}
if (__have_no_new_getrlimit < 0)
return INLINE_SYSCALL (setrlimit, 2, resource, CHECK_1 (rlimits));
# endif

/* We might have to correct the limits values. Since the old values
were signed the new values might be too large. */
rlimits_small.rlim_cur = MIN ((unsigned long int) rlimits->rlim_cur,
RLIM_INFINITY >> 1);
rlimits_small.rlim_max = MIN ((unsigned long int) rlimits->rlim_max,
RLIM_INFINITY >> 1);

/* Use the adjusted values. */
return INLINE_SYSCALL (setrlimit, 2, resource, __ptrvalue (&rlimits_small));
#endif
}

weak_alias (__new_setrlimit, __setrlimit);
versioned_symbol (libc, __new_setrlimit, setrlimit, GLIBC_2_2);
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