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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 09:58:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Yoriaki FUJIMORI <fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /compat/linux/bin/tcsh
Message-ID:  <15477.2837.484209.325315@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200202211304.g1LD4aY00687@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
References:  <200202211304.g1LD4aY00687@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>

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Yoriaki FUJIMORI writes:
 > 
 > Dear folks,
 > Today I noticed a funny thing.
 > 
 > When I invoked, as an ordinary user (say, ahoo),
 > % /compat/linux/bin/tcsh
 > on FreeBSD 4.5/i386, it worked properly, but on FreeBSD4.5/Alpha,
 > I got an error message, like
 > tcsh: Permission denied.
 > 
 > As the root, this works fine, as expected.
 > 
 > Ahoo's home directory is nfs-mounted from i386-based FreeBSD4.5
 > file server.
 > As far as I see, there is no difference in setting betwenn
 > i386 and alpha.
 > 
 > I am trying to switch shells, so that I can compile some sources
 > with Compaq's ccc/cxx/fort easily.
 > 
 > Thanks in advance for your responce.

There's a bug in 4.5-RELEASE caused by the new linux compat code
handling a few syscalls (get{uid,gid,pid}) wrong on alpha.

I fixed this in -STABLE shortly after -RELEASE.

Drew

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