Re: compat_linux failures due to execve, openat, etc.

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Kevin Bloom <ktnb%posteo.net@localhost> wrote:
> Minor update: I found the GC warnings in ktrace and see this a few
> lines above it:
> 10480  10480 nix-env  CALL  #157 (unimplemented prctl)
> 10480  10480 nix-env  RET  #157 (unimplemented prctl) -1 errno -38 Too many processes
>
> Could this prctl be something that isn't implemented in compat_linux?

There isn't an implementation of prctl().

It would be easy enough to add one that just handles PR_SET_NAME and
PR_GET_NAME, most of the code would come from the native
sys__lwp_setname() and sys__lwp_getname() syscalls.

Do you want to do it?