From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Michael Cree <cree@waikato.ac.nz>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru,
mattst88@gmail.com, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:20:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EE9F36.7050402@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130723032511.GA18086@stolen.phys.waikato.ac.nz>
On 07/22/2013 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> I wondered if your proposal will break glibc as glibc checks for
> __NR_oldumount and does different things based on that. But maybe your
> fix will not adversely affect glibc (I did not look particularly closely
> to see if so), but even so, there is no guarantee that other software does
> not directly access the oldumount syscall when compiled on Alpha, and your
> change would likely break any such software.
It won't break glibc. While there are conditionals for oldumount,
they do pretty much exactly the umount/umount2 dance you'd expect.
I'm for the patch, because anything that makes us match x86 more
closely has got to be a good thing from a portability standpoint.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 17:04 [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11 Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/7] alpha: Add kcmp and finit_module syscalls Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 2/7] alpha: Eliminate compiler warning from memset macro Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 19:54 ` Matt Turner
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 3/7] alpha: Modernize lib/mpi/longlong.h Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:19 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-16 18:55 ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 4/7] alpha: Improve atomic_add_unless Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 5/7] alpha: Implement atomic64_dec_if_positive Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 6/7] alpha: Generate dwarf2 unwind info for various kernel entry points Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 17:04 ` [PATCH 7/7] alpha: Fix type compatibility warning for marvel_map_irq Richard Henderson
2013-07-16 23:35 ` [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11 Rob Landley
2013-07-17 0:03 ` Michael Cree
2013-07-23 2:31 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-23 3:25 ` Michael Cree
2013-07-23 15:20 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2013-07-24 10:25 ` Michael Cree
2013-07-24 17:55 ` Richard Henderson
2013-07-17 4:29 ` Matt Turner
2013-07-17 13:02 ` Richard Henderson
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