Re: [PATCH] linux-user: Fix pipe() vs. pipe2() usage for ALPHA, MIPS, SH4 and SPARC

[Helge Deller]

On 7/18/22 18:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 16:50, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 7/18/22 16:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> So my preference would be that we should just say "we can assume
>>> that pipe2 is always available and implemented on linux hosts" and
>>> remove the code that handles the possibility that it isn't.
>>
>> Ok for me.
>> Do you want me to send a patch or will you do?
>
> If you'd like to write the patch that would be great.
> You can remove the meson.build line that sets CONFIG_PIPE2
> as well, since we have no other places that check it.

Ok, I'll do.

Btw, you asked:
> Did you run into this in practice, or is it just a
> theoretical concern ?

I didn't faced the problem in practice. I'm trying to solve another
issue and while debugging I stumbled over that code.

Helge