Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] nptl/sys_clone fix for i386/ppc

[BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>]

On Saturday 11 September 2004 15:33, Sven Köhler wrote:
> >>The problem is caused by the incorrect implementation of sys_clone().
> >> sys_clone() is an ugly beast that has different arguements depending
> >>on  the architecture.  For i386 and ppc, the child tid is passed as
> >>the  5th arguement instead of as the 4th arguement as as some other
> >>architectures (like x86-64) do.  The 4th arguement on i386 and ppc
> >>doesn't look to be used by the kernel.
> >
> > This is fixed in my tree.  It was a lot simpler than your patch, or what
> > I led you to believe.  I just moved sys_clone from syscall_kern.c to
> > arch/um/sys-i386/syscalls.c and fixed the interface.
>
> Sorry, i guess my question is stupid, but does UML now run an a
> host-system that is NPTL enabled? I didn't try that for a few months
> now, and LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 won't work with my host-system (gentoo)
> since it doesn't come with a 2nd glibc-versions.
That fix is only needed with TT mode off, SKAS mode on and Static Linking on, 
as far as I know.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729


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