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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100
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+[[!tag open_issue_glibc]]
+
+
+# IRC, unknown channel, unknown date
+
+ <pinotree> d'oh, broken defines for ioctl()!
+ <pinotree> http://paste.debian.net/45021/ ← any idea about this? looks like something fishy with the SIO* defines
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: ↑ know anything about this?
+ <pinotree> #define _IOT_arpreq _IOT_SIMPLE (struct arpreq) ← looks like it is missing for bits/ioctls.h
+ <pinotree> eglibc patch submitted-ioctl-unsigned-size_t.diff should be pimped a bit
+
+ <pinotree> youpi: while trying to compile ossp-uuid (needed by pgsql 8.4, needed by various other stuff), i found a bug in a hurd libc header
+ <youpi> that's possible
+ <pinotree> it has a ioctrl() using an id with a value having type 'struct arpreq'
+ <youpi> ah, that's not a bug then
+ <youpi> see the ioctl section of the porting page of the wiki
+ <pinotree> due to the sort of "mangling" done in bits/ioctrls.h, there should be an helper macro for the size of the struct arpreq
+ <pinotree> +#define _IOT_arpreq _IOT_SIMPLE (struct arpreq) ← adding this before any header was enough
+ * pinotree looks
+ <youpi> it's not to be done so simply
+ <youpi> see the page :)
+ <youpi> I'm afraid _IOT_arpreq can't be properly defined
+ * pinotree is not finding it...
+ <pinotree> the closest i see is http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-03/msg00025.html
+ <youpi> that's it yes
+ <youpi> I mean, that's the kind of thing
+ <youpi> but not the wiki page, let me look
+ <youpi> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/porting/guidelines.html
+ <pinotree> i also saw a glib patch adding few types like that (char, short, int)
+ <youpi> yes that's the same kind of thing
+ <pinotree> i see
+ <youpi> setting it to _IOT_SIMPLE(struct arpreq) would probably work with 32bit gnumach and 32bit userland, but may not with e.g. 64bit gnumach and 32bit userland and such
+ <pinotree> hmmm, sockaddr,sockaddr,int,sockaddr,char[16]
+ <pinotree> so basically it would support at most 3 elements in a passed struct?
+ <pinotree> s/elements/fields/
+ <youpi> 3 kinds of fields
+ <youpi> as you provide a count
+ <pinotree> youpi: so basically: #define _IOT_arpreq _IOT (_IOTS (struct sockaddr), 3, _IOTS (int), 1, _IOTS (char), 16) ?
+ <pinotree> ie the order of the fields in the struct does not matter, it seems?
+ <youpi> the order of the fields does matter
+ <youpi> as this encodes how mig will read the struct to send them
+ <pinotree> uhm
+ <youpi> also, _IOTS(struct sockaddr) won't work
+ <pinotree> yeah i should define it too
+ <youpi> no, it even needs to be replaced by its content
+ <pinotree> ah
+ <pinotree> it is possible to compose the _IOTS()?
+ <pinotree> (to build structs with more than 3 kind of fields)
+ <youpi> no
+ <pinotree> d'oh
+ <youpi> that's a hard shortcoming of the whole ioctl encoding
+ * pinotree scratches his head
+ <youpi> there's no way but redefining ioctl(), really
+ <youpi> it was a funny trick to encode it this way, but unrealistic
+ <pinotree> i see, yes
+ <youpi> not to mention ioctls which contain pointers, which just can not be passed to mig
+ <pinotree> indeed
+ <youpi> actually it's not mach's ioctl issue
+ <youpi> as mach doesn't know ioctl
+ <youpi> but the hurd ioctl interface
+ <pinotree> right
+ <youpi> which might end up in mach, other processes, other machines, etc.
+ * pinotree s/Mach/Hurd/ :)
+
+
+# `TIOCCONS`
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-05
+
+ <gnu_srs> Hi, anybody have time to look at what fails with: ioctl(0,
+ TIOCCONS, NULL)?
+ <gnu_srs> found a program doing the same function call as bootlogd:
+ http://paste.debian.net/80231/
+ <gnu_srs> rpctrace: http://paste.debian.net/80232/
+ <youpi> gnu_srs: it seems there is a misunderstanding between linux and
+ *bsd on this one
+ <youpi> to be able to work on *bsd (and on hurd too), the source code
+ should replace its NULL parameter with the address of an integer
+ containing 1
+ <youpi> see
+ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022116.html
+ for the bsd implementation, for instance
+ <gnu_srs> youpi: replacing 0 with &i where int i=1 gives: TIOCCONS:
+ Inappropriate ioctl for device
+ <youpi> so be it, but that's clearly needed to be able to work on bsd
+ <youpi> and probably the implementation is just missing on the Hurd for now
+ <gnu_srs> jus to be clear: do you mean 0 or NULL in: ioctl(0, TIOCCONS,
+ NULL)?
+ <youpi> yes, for instance there is an implementation do_tiocsctty in glibc,
+ but no to_tioccons
+ <youpi> I mean NULL
+ <gnu_srs> OK, that's where I changed, the first argument id the FD
+ <youpi> well, when I wrote "NULL", I really meant "NULL" ...
+ <gnu_srs> yes sure, so you say that it is not yet implemented?
+ <youpi> yes, for instance there is an implementation do_tiocsctty in glibc,
+ but no to_tioccons
+ <gnu_srs> easy to do?
+ <youpi> no idea, I don't even know what that is suppsoed to do
+ <youpi> it's probably something like tiocsctty, but I don't really know
+ <gnu_srs> Redirecting console output to a pseudotty
+ <youpi> omg that ioctl is so ugly
+ <youpi> the way I can see it working is to add an RPC to the /dev/console
+ translator (i.e. /hurd/term) to give it the fd, and have /hurd/term write
+ to it whenever it gets writes, instead of writing to the console device
+ <youpi> gnu_srs: what do you need that for?
+ <gnu_srs> bootlogd in sysvinit use that for logging.
+ <gnu_srs> should I propose a patch to avoid the segfault when booting then?
+ <youpi> at least, yes
+ <youpi> *bsd will need it anyway
+ <gnu_srs> youpi: btw: hurd console does not work when running openrc,
+ neither is halt/reboot. Maybe you should try it out?
+ <gnu_srs> bootlogd use ioctl(0, TIOCCONS, NULL) a Linux (only) construct
+ <gnu_srs> ?
+ <youpi> gnu_srs: I had infinite time in the day, I would be able to try it
+ out, yes
+ <braunr> heh
+ <youpi> giving NULL to TIOCCONS is a linux-only construct, yes
+ <youpi> to be compatible with *BSD, you have to pass the parameter
+ mentioned above
+ <youpi> instead of NULL
+ <gnu_srs> well bootlogd is from sysvinit, so it is a matter if we move to
+ that for init.
+ <gnu_srs> ***checking if bootlogd segfaults on kFreeBSD too
+
+
+# Non-constant structures as IOCTL parameter
+
+[[!debbug 413734]].
+
+
+## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-16
+
+ <gg0> https://bugs.debian.org/413734
+ <gg0> patch #2 has become http://paste.debian.net/plain/82412/
+ <gg0> ie. almost entirely ifdef'ing DeviceEnum
+ <gg0> ok final patch is http://paste.debian.net/plain/82440/
+ <gg0> could anyone review it, especially last 3 oss hunks?
+ <azeem> gg0: well probably it would be cleaner to have autoconf check for
+ any of the three soundcard.h include locations?
+ <gg0> azeem: i think if upstream is ok with 2 it could be ok with 3 too
+ <gg0> my concern is about linux/ in header path (hurd is not linux) and
+ about ways cleaner than last 2 hunks
+ <azeem> well yeah, #ifdef __GNU__ #include <linux/foo.h> certainly looks
+ ugly
+ <gg0> i'll ifdef ioctls only
+
+
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-17
+
+ <gg0> http://paste.debian.net/plain/82446/
+ <gg0> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10696
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2014-02-17
+
+ <gg0> porting vlc with http://paste.debian.net/plain/82446/ +
+ http://paste.debian.net/plain/82510/
+ <gg0> what's the proper way to fix ioctl instead of ifdef'ing them?
+ <gg0> see https://bugs.debian.org/413734
+ <braunr> gg0: defining them in libc
+ <braunr> and in servers implementing them ofc