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

[Joachim Durchholz]

I can confirm that the strace noise is quite annoying.
Particularly for programs that load a huge list of plugins and libraries, such as xfce4-settings-manager.
(A similar problem exists for programs checking a long list of fallbacks for translation and configuration files.)

I don't think the issue is invalid, a fix would require escalating this
quite far upstream though.

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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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