Re: Breaking userspace? Re: 3.0.24 broke aufofs on mixed 32/64bit environment

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 24.04.2012 20:12, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 24.04.2012 19:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>>> Kernel has been shipping with this brokeness for quite
>>> some time, namely, since introduction of autofs4, dated
>>> Mon Mar 27 01:14:55 2006 -0800 (commit 5c0a32fc2cd0).
>>

>> Actually, that's just not true. The *main* users of the interface seem
>> to have never fixed anything. As far as I know, neither the upstream
>> autofs tools nor several of the big distributions ever had patches to
>> make 32-bit autofs work with the old broken 64-bit compat layer.
[]
> I don't know how old this code is, but it definitely is in the
> 5.0.1 upstream tarball, and the file there is dated
> Feb-20, 2007 - at least 3 years after the initial bug in kernel.

I meant to say "about a year after the initial bug in kernel".

And I think it was me who found the original issue, -- i mean,
discovered that it does not work, not found the real bug - but
I don't remember anymore.  This stuff looks very familiar for
some reason however... ;)

Thanks,

/mjt