Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:35:44 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: caution required with updates using custom kernels Message-ID: <20160625113544.GS38613@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20160625131806.14fa4799.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <20160623210751.GB7860@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20160624060019.5e650ad9.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20160624155111.GB20770@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <330789230754140e38fb527973e23405@ultimatedns.net> <20160624225034.GC20770@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20160625070238.GG38613@kib.kiev.ua> <20160625131806.14fa4799.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 01:18:06PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:02:38 +0300 > Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> schrieb: > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:50:34PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > pipe(2) had an unnecessarily odd calling convention (ignoring the > > > argument the user thought they were passing and returning the two file > > > descriptors via the two return registers). This required machine > > > dependent assembly for every target and special handling in tracing > > > tools (ktrace, dtrace, etc). On 64-bit platforms, pipe(2)'s > > > implementation is the only reason the two-register return model needs to > > > exist at all (on 32-bit platforms it allows off_t to be returned from > > > lseek). > > getpid() is another instance. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > That all is a nice explanation, but how to recover from a broken system, on which the > order of installation wasn't performed the right way? Copy the libc.so.7 binary from the build area to /lib manually, e.g. using rescue shell.
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