Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 diff -dur strace-4.5.15.orig/syscall.c strace-4.5.15/syscall.c
2 --- strace-4.5.15.orig/syscall.c 2006-12-21 23:13:33.000000000 +0100
3 +++ strace-4.5.15/syscall.c 2007-07-14 19:21:44.000000000 +0200
6 * Note: we only deal with only 32-bit CPUs here.
9 + if (!(tcp->flags & TCB_INSYSCALL) &&
10 + (tcp->flags & TCB_WAITEXECVE)) {
11 + /* caught a fake syscall from the execve's exit */
12 + tcp->flags &= ~TCB_WAITEXECVE;
17 if (regs.ARM_cpsr & 0x20) {
19 * Get the Thumb-mode system call number