Re: libselinux does not compile on ia64

[Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 08:49 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>	The latest libselinux fails to compile on IA64 with the
>> following error:
>> cc -Wall -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE    setupns.c  -L../src -lselinux  -o setupn
>> setupns.c:17: error: syntax error before "clone"
>> setupns.c:22: warning: return type defaults to `int'
>>
>>        Apparently, there is no clone on IA64.  There is an excerpt
>> from libc 2.3.2 that implements a clone look alike for IA64; however,
>> libc is LGPL'd , so the combination is no longer public domain.
> 
> 
> At this point, I think setupns in libselinux is obsoleted by Janak's
> patches for pam.  Right, Janak?  So we could just drop it altogether,
> both utils/setupns.c (example utility) and src/setupns.c (libselinux
> function).  There are no users of it yet.
> 

Yup. That's correct. We can drop setupns() from both utils/setupns.c and
src/setupns.c. Functionality provided by setupns() has migrated to the
pam_namespace patch.

-Janak


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