Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1

Matthias Andree
2004-07-12T09:27:47Z

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, there's been a long time between "public" releases, although the
> automated BK snapshots have obviously been keeping people up-to-date.
> Sorry about that, I blame mainly moving boxes and stuff around...

...

> Alexander Viro:
...
> o sparse: rt_sigsuspend/sigaltstack sanitized

I consider this harmful right now, full log:

ChangeSet@1.1743, 2004-06-18 13:35:31-07:00, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
[PATCH] sparse: rt_sigsuspend/sigaltstack sanitized

rt_sigsuspend() and sigaltstack() prototype changed; instead of
playing games with casts of argument address to struct pt_regs * and
digging through it, we declare them as

int (struct pt_regs regs)

instead.

This ChangeSet causes Java to get killed right away, to see this, just
type "Java". Excluding this ChangeSet (ID
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk[torvalds]|ChangeSet|20040618203531|62233)
fixes the problem for me.

Thanks to Go Taniguchi for isolating the change set.