Re: ORBit bug (or panel bug?)

[Edd Dumbill <edmundd heddley com>]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> 
> > Looks like mkdir _is_ returning EEXIST, but that "ptrace: umoven: Input/output
> > error" looks odd? Corrupt file system?
> 
> That's just strace not working perfectly - ignore it.
> 
> > mkdir(ptrace: umoven: Input/output error
> > 0x80adfd8, 0700) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> 
> Perhaps your libc is screwed up or something. Any ideas what the problem
> is?

I've been having this problem too.  It coincided with when I 
needed to add "-lpthread" to get ORBit to build.

I've traced through the code, and errno is always zero
after the mkdir(). This implies that the code isn't getting
the right errno.  I know that when threads are being used
this define in errno.h becomes important:

#if defined(_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS) || defined(_REENTRANT)
extern int* __errno_location  __P((void));
#define errno   (*__errno_location ())
#else
extern int errno;
#endif

so it looks like the build isn't setting the _REENTRANT flag, and
so we're getting the wrong errno.

Where should this flag be set?

(I'm going to try a clean build of glib to see if this helps)

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