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diff --git a/hurd/porting/system_api_limitations.mdwn b/hurd/porting/system_api_limitations.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..83a54654 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/porting/system_api_limitations.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +Sometimes building or running a program will fail due to bugs in the system API +implementation (in [[glibc]] and the [[Hurd]]). Make sure you check this list +and know them before porting, otherwise you'll end up debugging something just +to find out its an already known bug. + +Taken from the bug lists in [[running/Debian]] BTS. If you find more of them +(and it is clear in the bug log that it is a bug), please add them to the list +below. + +These are the known system API limits that have porting implications. + +**_[\#47998](http://bugs.debian.org/47998): `msgget` IPC not implemented_** + +**_[\#184565](http://bugs.debian.org/184565): libc0.3: missing shm\* functions (from `<sys/shm.h>`)_**<br />**breaks:** cdrtools<br />**error:** warning: shm\* is not implemented and will always fail + +**_[\#190581](http://bugs.debian.org/190581): nice() doesn't work_**<br />**breaks:** coreutils<br />**error:** `nice()` doesn't take effect on some situations + +**_[\#187391](http://bugs.debian.org/187391): libc0.3-dev: `sockaddr_un.sun_path` can't be assigned a `const char *` when compiling with g++_**<br />**breaks:** fam, gail<br />**status:** maybe this should be in [[PortingIssues]] (see _long_ bug log) + +**_[\#190367](http://bugs.debian.org/190367): libc0.3-dev: `fcntl` `F_GETLK` not implemented (`ENOSYS`)_**<br />**breaks:** gnome-session (and others) from running<br />**error:** misc lock-related errors |