From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.suse.de (ns1.suse.de [195.135.220.2]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id kB82SUaG005584 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:28:31 -0800 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: [PATCH] libattr 2.4.32 arm eabi system call calling convention Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:07:54 -0800 References: <20061130025459.GA23869@xi.wantstofly.org> <20061130092853.GB1534@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20061130092853.GB1534@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612071807.55023.agruen@suse.de> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Timothy Shimmin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Lennert Buytenhek , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-arm@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Hello, 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? Thanks, Andreas PS. I hope we'll meet at linux.conf.au this January in Sydney, or in Melbourne some days later :-)