Re: [PATCH] libattr 2.4.32 arm eabi system call calling convention

[Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:07 -0800, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Andreas,

> On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:28, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:54:59AM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > > When building for EABI, a different system call calling convention is
> > > used where system calls are numbered starting from zero, not 0x900000
> > > as in the old ABI.  This was causing 'ls -al' with an ls binary that
> > > was built with xattr support to SIGILL.
> >
> > Please just rip out the direct syscalls.  The days glibc provices all
> > the xattr syscalls in sys/xattr.h, and libattr should just forward to
> > those.
> 
> Yes, makes sense these days. Thanks for paying attention, Christoph.
> 
> Tim, who from the SGI side is taking care of the acl and attr packages in the 
> xfs-cmds repository these days? Would you be doing this change, or are you 
> waiting for a patch?

Tim's on holiday atm.  I'll cook up a patch (I have another attr patch
from someone I need to get merged too), and get someone to check it in.

> PS. I hope we'll meet at linux.conf.au this January in Sydney, or in Melbourne 
> some days later :-)

I'll see you there too (I'm looking forward to your LCA talk ;)

cheers.

-- 
Nathan