From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:44690 "EHLO duck.linux-mips.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491957Ab1CRSSo (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:44 +0100 Received: from duck.linux-mips.net (duck.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by duck.linux-mips.net (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2IIIRnm004512; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:27 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by duck.linux-mips.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p2IIIQOk004510; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:26 +0100 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:18:26 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Heiher Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixup personality in different ABI. Message-ID: <20110318181826.GA29814@linux-mips.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 29411 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:59:40PM +0800, Heiher wrote: > From bf3637153bc5e3d0e3f1c2982c323057a8e04801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Heiher > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:51:08 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] Fixup personality in different ABI. > > * 'arch' output: > o32 : mips > n32 : mips64 > 64 : mips64 That's the correct behaviour - the personality gets inherited by the parent. If you want to invoke a process with a different personality you can do this with a utility like arch32 or setarch. Ralf