Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:15:12 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: gurney_j@efn.org, freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org, peter@spinner.netplex.com.au Subject: Re: bad system call - world build Message-ID: <199710292015.MAA29407@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199710291323.AAA14486@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:23:29 %2B1100)
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* I thought this was well known. getcwd() is a library function with a Well, I have heard from more than one person on this list that it was getcwd(). I sometimes believe things you know. ;) * standard interface, so incompatibilities are easy to avoid, and are * avoided. issetugid() is a syscall with a new interface. It can't * possibly work with old kernels. Unfortunately, ex(1) uses it, at * least for the termcap script. It is surprising that it isn't used * more for `make world', since it is sometimes called by setlocale(). Hmm. So it breaks somewhere between 2.2.2 and 2.2.5? Sorry for being slow, why is it that people aren't complaining on -stable? There should be someone trying to build 2.2-stable on a 2.2.2 or 2.1.X system. At any rate, dying with issetugid() in termcap building (of all places) is sort of ingenious. I hope we can do something about it.... Satoshi
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