FS#15327 - [neon] errors with older kernels

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Blake Imsland (robotblake) - Wednesday, 01 July 2009, 01:20 GMT
Last edited by Jürgen Hötzel (juergen) - Thursday, 10 September 2009, 18:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
In newer versions of neon, it uses SOCK_CLOEXEC which is unsupported on any kernel version lower than 2.6.27. This causes issues in subversion and possibly other programs.

Additional info:
neon = 0.28.4-1 affected

Steps to reproduce:
1. Use a kernel version lower than 2.6.27.
2. Install newest neon.
3. Install newest subversion.
4. Attempt to do a checkout from any svn server.

I have attached the upstream patch[1] which changes neons behavior to check for SOCK_CLOEXEC at runtime instead of just at compile time.

[1] http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-June/000151.html
   cloexec-detect.path (2.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 18:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in neon-0.28.6-1
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 01 July 2009, 02:44 GMT
  • Field changed: Task Type (Bug Report → Feature Request)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Task assigned to Jürgen Hötzel (juergen)
Sidenote: 2.6 Linux older than 2.6.27 are not maintained by the -stable team.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 01 July 2009, 06:43 GMT
Sidenote 2: 2.6.18 is still the official Xen kernel and also the lowest version we maintain compatible with in glibc.

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