Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:06:53 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: starting to commit linuxolator (SoC 2006) changes... Message-ID: <20060816090653.GA820@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060816002328.365a14cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20060815141151.15ae4349@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1BD03.2030402@FreeBSD.org> <20060815144625.362bf376@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1C3E4.7080508@FreeBSD.org> <20060815153451.604d16f1@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <44E1E85D.5070805@FreeBSD.org> <20060815180713.6a4ee2e6@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20060815212143.G45647@fledge.watson.org> <20060816002328.365a14cd@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-Aug-16 00:23:28 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >For the curious ones: the code is "activated" by changing osrelease, >because the glibc behaves differently depending on the osrelease. It >makes different syscalls based upon the linux kernel version. So if >there's a program which tries if a syscall does not return ENOSYS >instead of checking the osrelease, it may fail. If you are aware of >such a program, please tell us about it. I don't think this was mentioned before. IMHO, this is worth mentioning in the linuxolator documentation because it's not immediately obvious and it's likely to bite someone in a non- obvious way. --=20 Peter Jeremy --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE4uAt/opHv/APuIcRAlcJAJ0ThzR6QIqbcEwe2Pmwao//2wwCCwCbBkbk Tmdn7cbAdT6l1oRvm3vs05w= =CgIC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo--
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