execvpe and glibc 2.10

[Michael McMahon]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/7/9 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
>   
>> Sorry, I should never have named a function (not even a static one)
>> 'execvpe'.  It's amusing that I broke myself by requesting that glibc
>> implement 'execvpe'.
>>
>> Here's the webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/rename-execvpe/
>>
>> For those following things, there are now 3 pending patches for
>> UNIXProcess_md.c:
>>
>> rename-execvpe
>> vfork-exec
>> RESTARTABLE
>>
>> and there are more to come.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:32, Lillian Angel <langel at redhat.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> I am having trouble building IcedTea6 on Fedora 12
>>> (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1463798&name=build.log),
>>> it seems because this bug was fixed in glibc-2.10-3:
>>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10221
>>>
>>> Do you have a patch for IcedTea/OpenJDK to get around this?
>>>
>>>       
>
> Martin,
>
> What happened to this patch? Has it been pushed to 6/7?
>
> Thanks,
>   
No, it hasn't been pushed yet. The vfork-exec one in particular
needs some more testing before it can be pushed.

Michael.