[Bug 558571] Re: /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing

[John Drinkwater]

Think the original report queried whether it could be cached with the
comment ‘or the futile accesses should be removed’ to avoid the noise in
traces; is the state of the file intended to change ld behaviour during
load, should it?

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Title:
  /etc/ld.so.nohwcap missing

Status in “glibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  /etc/ld.so.nohwcap is accessed on every process launch, but it does
  not exist.

  Example:
  strace ls 2>&1 | grep /etc/ld.so.nohwcap
  strace df 2>&1 | grep /etc/ld.so.nohwcap
  strace sleep 0 2>&1 | grep /etc/ld.so.nohwcap

  Output is one or more:
  access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

  This file should exist (what does it do?), or the futile accesses
  should be removed. Doing so will improve process launch times.

  This was confirmed on Ubuntu 10.04

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