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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-17 11:53:25 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-17 11:53:25 +0200
commit0e3cc3116de1145545a51d598bece890eb6d8424 (patch)
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parentd82633d06a0b7f24e98f12a2686c1ffdf12f5cd3 (diff)
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syscalls: Fix ABI mismatch for 'clone'.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/21694>. * guix/build/syscalls.scm (clone): Change 'syscall' parameter types to LONG, UNSIGNED-LONG, or '*; make sure it has 6 parameters. Adjust caller accordingly.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix')
-rw-r--r--guix/build/syscalls.scm15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/syscalls.scm b/guix/build/syscalls.scm
index 2c2fbde0a3..a3b68c4537 100644
--- a/guix/build/syscalls.scm
+++ b/guix/build/syscalls.scm
@@ -315,10 +315,16 @@ string TMPL and return its file name. TMPL must end with 'XXXXXX'."
(define CLONE_NEWNET #x40000000)
;; The libc interface to sys_clone is not useful for Scheme programs, so the
-;; low-level system call is wrapped instead.
+;; low-level system call is wrapped instead. The 'syscall' function is
+;; declared in <unistd.h> as a variadic function; in practice, it expects 6
+;; pointer-sized arguments, as shown in, e.g., x86_64/syscall.S.
(define clone
(let* ((ptr (dynamic-func "syscall" (dynamic-link)))
- (proc (pointer->procedure int ptr (list int int '*)))
+ (proc (pointer->procedure long ptr
+ (list long ;sysno
+ unsigned-long ;flags
+ '* '* '*
+ '*)))
;; TODO: Don't do this.
(syscall-id (match (utsname:machine (uname))
("i686" 120)
@@ -329,7 +335,10 @@ string TMPL and return its file name. TMPL must end with 'XXXXXX'."
"Create a new child process by duplicating the current parent process.
Unlike the fork system call, clone accepts FLAGS that specify which resources
are shared between the parent and child processes."
- (let ((ret (proc syscall-id flags %null-pointer))
+ (let ((ret (proc syscall-id flags
+ %null-pointer ;child stack
+ %null-pointer %null-pointer ;ptid & ctid
+ %null-pointer)) ;unused
(err (errno)))
(if (= ret -1)
(throw 'system-error "clone" "~d: ~A"