On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:11 PM, <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> After the recent changes in hppa architecture Erlang virtual machine >>> fails to start (which leads to several FTBFS bugs in particular: >>> #559628, #559962, #559004). >>> >>> The problem is that after vfork(), execve() fails to start a child >>> process. It sets errno to EMFILE. If I run erl under strace, it works >>> fine. Is it a bug in glibc, or in Erlang itself? >>> >>> I'm giving a small excerpt from erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c file >>> where the failed execve(), the rest could be found in erlang >>> 12.b.2.1-1 sources. >> >> Are you certain that execve() fails to start a child process? > > Yes, after I've inserted some debug printf() right after execve() it > was reached. Yes, you are definitely right, I hadn't thought to try that. I will test an instrumented kernel tonight to see what the problem is. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
