On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 11:36:16AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > Today we discovered that libstdc++ std::chrono is broken because it's > making direct syscalls to SYS_clock_gettime to work around glibc > putting clock_gettime in librt. This is exactly the same issue as > busybox https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12091 and I would not > be surprised if it exists in more software. It's a silent bug that's > easy to find and fix if you know what to look for, but very confusing > and hard to find if you don't, and it can easily slip into software > that's not well-tested on time64. > > What I'd like to propose doing is removing __NR_clock_gettime and > SYS_clock_gettime from the public sys/syscall.h (via bits headers) on > 32-bit archs, and moving SYS_clock_gettime to > arch/$(ARCH)/syscall_arch.h for musl-internal use. This would make it > a hard compile-time error for any software attempting to use the > syscall directly, and in the case of libstdc++ I think it would even > fix the problem without patching gcc, since they have a configure > check for the syscall. > > Thoughts? Is this too big a hammer? Patch attached. Rich