From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:53:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:53:40 -0500 Received: from mail.crc.dk ([130.226.184.8]:44294 "EHLO mail.crc.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:53:30 -0500 Message-ID: <3A671F45.292A9270@crc.dk> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:52:21 +0100 From: Mogens Kjaer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: da, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nfs client problem in kernel 2.4.0 In-Reply-To: <3A6466E3.AB55716@crc.dk> <3A66E248.8A1E6A85@crc.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Trond Myklebust wrote: > It comes from the SGI. The NFS client just considers it all a cookie, > and passes it on to glibc. We probably shouldn't do that, as indeed > the cookie is not guaranteed to be 32-bit signed, but it's what we > always did for 2.2.x. So what do I do to get it to work? I could patch glibc so that it treats the -1/4294967295 as a special case, but... (I actually did this, but updating /lib/libc.so on a running system turned out to be a really, Really, REALLY bad idea :-(( ). Before ruining my machine it worked by prepending LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the test program, so the idea works. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk@crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/