A reliable port cross-build failure (hangup) in my context (amd64->armv7 cross build, with native-tool speedup involved)

Dennis Clarke dclarke at blastwave.org
Sat Dec 29 17:48:33 UTC 2018


On 12/28/18 9:56 PM, Mark Millard via freebsd-arm wrote:
> 
> On 2018-Dec-28, at 12:12, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-Dec-28, at 05:13, Michal Meloun <melounmichal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mark,
>>> this is known problem with qemu-user-static.
>>> Emulation of every single interruptible syscall is broken by design (it
>>> have signal related races). Theses races cannot be solved without major
>>> rewrite of syscall emulation code.
>>> Unfortunately, nobody actively works on this, I think.
>>>

Following along here quietly and I had to blink at this a few times.
Is there a bug report somewhere within the qemu world related to this
  'broken by design' qemu feature?


Dennis


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