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From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: "MЕns RullgЕrd" <mru@users.sourceforge.net>,
	jlnance@intrex.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 04:31:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020703043119.A804@localhost.park.msu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020702161322.A7642@twiddle.net>; from rth@twiddle.net on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0700

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Do we have any way of recognizing v4 vs v5 binaries?  I don't think
> we do.

Indeed. I've specially looked for this yesterday, and it seems that             
we don't.                                                                       

> I'd be willing to call any ECOFF binary an OSF binary, and
> ignore the fact that Linux used them in the distant past.

Totally acceptable, I think.

> The minimum correct solution is to add a PER_OSF4 to personality.h
> and put an osf_readv and osf_writev that, if PER_OSF4, read and frob
> the data into kernel buffers and pass that on to the regular syscalls.

It would be excellent.

Ivan.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-03  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-28 10:54 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-06-28 20:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-06-29  2:28   ` Alan Cox
2002-06-29 23:50     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-07-01  7:54       ` Kurt Garloff
2002-07-01 16:17         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-07-01 13:03       ` jlnance
2002-07-01 14:02         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-07-01 19:40           ` Måns Rullgård
2002-07-02 15:05             ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-07-02 23:13               ` Richard Henderson
2002-07-03  0:31                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky [this message]
2002-06-29  2:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-29 22:45   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-07-02 20:56     ` Marcelo Tosatti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-29  4:39 Chris Adams

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