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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:42:24AM -0400, Greg Weeks wrote:
>  
>
>>I needed this glibc patch to get the sysv ipc msgctl functions to work 
>>correctly. This looks a bit hackish to me, so I wanted to run it past 
>>everybody here before filing it with glibc.
>>    
>>
>
>What's your configuration?  Big or little endian, userland ABI, kernel
>ABI.  Glibc version.  Kernel version.  What specific things don't work. 
>Not even enough information here to make a guess.
>
>You're updating the userspace msqid_ds to match the kernel's
>msqid64_ds.  They're not normally the same type.  Rather, see
><linux/msg.h> for the type o32 generally uses.
>
>  
>

glibc-2.3.3-200407050320
2.6.11.7 kernel but it's the issue is the same on the 2.6.12-rc from cvs.
The board is a malta 4kc in LE mode.
If you want to see a failure the LTP msgctl/msgsnd tests fail.

Greg Weeks