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Re: Qoth Q3 2024 & on aarch64-gnu


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Qoth Q3 2024 & on aarch64-gnu
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:58:07 +0200

Hello,

Sergey Bugaev, le sam. 21 sept. 2024 12:46:03 +0300, a ecrit:
> On the other side of this, from a chat that I had at one point with
> Samuel, I understood that basically once glibc patches are merged, he
> could cross-build lots of Debian packages for aarch64-gnu,

Yes. It's not automatic in terms of dependencies, but it's quite easy to
do.

> Getting those patches merged involves, for one
> thing, me posting a rebased & slightly updated version, but also glibc
> maintainers reviewing them — and it's been months since I posted the
> v2 patches, and they still haven't. Hopefully they'll regain interest
> if I post a v3?

Yes. Also you can ping the list to make sure the thread hadn't just got
forgotten.

> However, it's unclear if/how this should integrate with MIG; we might
> have to write another version of MIG which would generate Rust- and
> async/await-native stubs,

That'd be simpler, yes.

> but also this is suboptimal because MIG is obscure enough as it is, it
> would be a shame to essentially fork it.

? It is documented in the mig manual.

> > Sergey Bugaev sped up access () / faccessat (), when checking for file 
> > existence. This is prompted by GLib switching to use faccessat (F_OK) to 
> > implement g_file_query_exists () for local files.
> 
> Not sure if this is worth mentioning, since it's really minor.

Yes, it's very minor :)

> It would perhaps be more interesting to mention my (recently resumed)
> work on GHurdFileMonitor, which is a Hurd-native implementation of
> GLib's GFileMonitor.

Indeed.

Samuel



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