[uml-devel] Re: [stable] [patch 1/1] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone"

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* blaisorblade@yahoo.it (blaisorblade@yahoo.it) wrote:
> Revert the following patch, because of miscompilation problems in different
> environments leading to UML not working *at all* in TT mode; it was merged
> lately in 2.6 development cycle, a little after being written, and has caused
> problems to lots of people; I know it's a bit too long, but it shouldn't have
> been merged in first place, so I still apply for inclusion in the -stable
> tree. Anyone using this feature currently is either using some older kernel
> (some reports even used 2.6.12-rc4-mm2) or using this patch, as included in my
> -bs patchset.
> 
> For now there's not yet a fix for this patch, so for now the best thing is to
> drop it (which was widely reported to give a working kernel).

And upstream will leave this in, working to real fix?

thanks,
-chris


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