From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 1 16:13: 1 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFF937B401; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f81NCaU36584; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.5) id f81NCa713115; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:12:36 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Kris Kennaway Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_uid16.c Message-ID: <20010901161236.C13047@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200109011811.f81IBjU25855@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010901150143.A57116@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010901150143.A57116@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:01:43PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:11:45AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > marcel 2001/09/01 11:11:45 PDT > > > > Added files: > > sys/compat/linux linux_uid16.c > > Log: > > Speculatively add this file. It's part of the Linuxulator update > > to make it emulate Linux kernel version 2.4.2, which is required > > in order to upgrade the linux_base port to RH 7.1. > > > > Note that this file is only needed for 32-bit architectures. To > > us this means i386 (for now?) > > But what does it do? It provides support of the 16-bit uid_t and gid_t based syscalls. Linux now has a new set of syscalls that work with 32-bit uid_t and gid_t. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message