Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-03-14)

Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-03-14)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2022-03-07 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bluejeans.com/9093064454

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * 255 patches with NEW/NOBODY.
 * getaddrinfo facelift and fixes (Sidhesh)
  * Some feedback from Carlos regarding DNS access.
  * Feedback from Andreas about example.org.
 * [v5] Allow for unpriviledged nested containers (DJ)
  * Florian reviewing.
 * [v6] Support DT_RELR relative relocation format (HJ)
  * Added for x86_64, ppc64le looking at this. What about others? (Adhemerval)
  * What about aarch64 and s390x? Other arches like RSIC-V?
  * Confirmed for 2.38 we have x86_64, ppc64, ppc64le.
  * Would be nice to have aarch64.
 * scripts/dso-ordering-test.py: Fix C&P error in * callrefs processing
  * Adhemerval to review.
 * [v5] elf: Fix DFS sorting algorithm for LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS with missing libraries (BZ #28868)
  * Review from Florian?
 * Remove kernel version and distinguish library check (Adhemerval)
  * Waiting for Florian to finish review.
  * Discussed that 4.9 is the oldest LTS kernel we could support.
  * No large benefit to move to 4.9 and it would cause downstream problems.
  * Relaxing the version check is a step forward.
 * PowerPC64 static-pie (Alan Modra)
  * Tulio (IBM) to review.
 * : C++20 P0482R6 and C2X N2653: support for char8_t, mbrtoc8(), and c8rtomb().
  * No review.
 * [v4] localedata: Updates for Taiwanese locales [BZ #24409] 
  * Carlos asking for split up and review.
 * Use RFC5424 for syslog (Adhemerval)
  * Adhemerval: Need to review upstream systemd thread.
 * linux: Add new syscalls
  * Added 12 syscalls.
  * Carlos: Do we need man pages for these?
  * Adhemerval: I think all of them have man pages.
  * man-pages currently slow to update.
   * Waiting for Alejandro to have access to tree?
 * Predictable ELF destructor ordering
  * Florian to repost.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

Re: Monday Patch Queue Review update (2022-03-14)

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 14/03/2022 19:25, Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha wrote:
>   * getaddrinfo facelift and fixes (Sidhesh)
>    * Some feedback from Carlos regarding DNS access.
>    * Feedback from Andreas about example.org.

Thanks for discussing this.  FYI this is an updated patchset that 
addresses your DNS comment and consequently runs clean on trybot.  It 
would be nice to get a full review.

Siddhesh