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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make <linux/personality.h> userspace proof
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:32:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061018103221.GA28696@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061018102433.GB1767@infradead.org>

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:55:26PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > <linux/personality.h> contains the constants for personality(2) but also
> > some defintions that are useless or even harmful in userspace such as
> > the personality() macro.
> 
> NACK.  glibc has a <sys/personality.h> for that.  It's been there since
> at least glibc 2.3.

And I ran over this on a glibc 2.2 system ...

  Ralf

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-18 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-17 15:55 [PATCH] Make <linux/personality.h> userspace proof Ralf Baechle
2006-10-18 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-18 10:32   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]

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