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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>,
	herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, xemul@sw.ru,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:44:39 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144539879.11689.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1psjslf1s.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 01:09 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > -#define ELF_PLATFORM  (system_utsname.machine)
> > +#define ELF_PLATFORM  (init_utsname()->machine)
> >  
> >  #ifdef __KERNEL__
> >  #define SET_PERSONALITY(ex, ibcs2) do { } while (0)
> I think this one needs to be utsname()->machine.
> Currently it doesn't matter.  But Herbert has expressed
> the desire to make a machine appear like an older one.

This is extremely useful for faking it as "i386" on x86_64 systems, for
instance.

Sam.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-08 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060407234815.849357768@sergelap>
     [not found] ` <20060408045206.EAA8E19B8FF@sergelap.hallyn.com>
2006-04-08  7:09   ` [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-08 20:27     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-09  9:44       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-09 10:14         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-09 10:25           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-09 10:36             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 20:39         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-10 20:46           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-08 23:44     ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2006-04-09  0:12       ` [Devel] " Kir Kolyshkin
2006-04-09  9:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10  1:15 ` [PATCH 0/7] uts namespaces: Introduction Sam Vilain
     [not found] ` <20060408045206.EFDD819B901@sergelap.hallyn.com>
2006-04-10 16:06   ` [Devel] [PATCH 4/7] uts namespaces: implement utsname namespaces Cedric Le Goater
2006-04-10 20:48     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-05-01 19:53 [PATCH 2/7] uts namespaces: switch to using uts namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2006-05-01 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate Serge E. Hallyn

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