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Subject: Re: Q: sys_personality() && misc oddities
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On 05/26/2010 01:31 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> As for the other oddities, they need the separate patches. Or we can
>> just leave this code alone ;)
> 
> I can't see any sign that anybody cares.

I certainly care, because we have had some very strange behavior with
weird personality bits in the past.  So cleaning this up would be good.

	-hpa