[BACKPORT FOR 1.7, 1.8, 1.9] /hg/icedtea6: Support systems where the sched_getcpu libc call is missing

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 19:17 Mon 20 Sep     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 20.09.2010 16:29, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > Ok to backport to 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9?
> 
> I assume yes, just was does "too old" mean?
> 

It adds a fallback so that if the glibc call is absent
but the kernel syscall is there, the syscall will be used.
So we're talking about a specific period when the call was
in the kernel but not glibc.  It's true of RHEL 5 where the
issue was found, and maybe other systems too.

It shouldn't affect systems with the glibc call (that is tested
for first) nor systems without either which will still fail as before.

>    Matthias

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Andrew :)

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