dpkg: sync_file_range
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Description
No crash. Workflow to produce BSC is as follows: run Ubuntu-in-ish within chroot.
Copied from the console This is not issue #825, which was an ‘illegal instruction’.
```
root@iPhone:/# cd root
root@iPhone:~# dpkg -i gcc-8-base_8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gcc-8-base:i386.
(Reading database ... 4093 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack gcc-8-base_8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04_i386.deb ...
Unpacking gcc-8-base:i386 (8.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) ...
Bad system call
root@iPhone:~# dmesg
[ 0.000000] 835 missing syscall 314
```
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Research direction
No source file or test is named. Reproduce the Ubuntu-in-ish chroot workflow, then inspect handling of missing syscall 314, `sync_file_range`, using the `dmesg` output as the baseline; done means the dpkg installation no longer stops with `Bad system call`.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, ios, linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100