Re: [PATCH] Do not segfault because of kernel version

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

On 07/03/2011 04:11 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
> Luk Claes wrote:
> 
>   > Yes, just return UINT_MAX.  Fix the other error return too, the one where
>   > uname fails.  And put in a comment if you can briefly summarize Linus's
>   > argument.
>   
>   I thought that a real error like uname failing should still get the
>   'wrong' return 0, no?
> 
> No.  As I read it, Linus argues that you should only run the backward
> compatibility code path when you know you're running an older kernel.  If
> you don't know, then you should assume you're running a newer kernel.

So, if uname fails we treat it as a newer kernel, shouldn't we treat
that as an error? So treating it as a special case instead of running
backward compatibility or as a newer kernel?

Cheers

Luk