Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269987AbUJNHcm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:32:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269985AbUJNHcl (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:32:41 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:47071 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269946AbUJNHci (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:32:38 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16750.11146.297875.521746@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:32:26 -0700 To: Arun Sharma Cc: David Woodhouse , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support ia32 exec domains without CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT In-Reply-To: <416DABB9.8050804@intel.com> References: <41643EC0.1010505@intel.com> <20041007142710.A12688@infradead.org> <4165D4C9.2040804@intel.com> <41671696.1060706@intel.com> <416AF599.2060801@intel.com> <1097617824.5178.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <416C5ECF.6060402@intel.com> <416DABB9.8050804@intel.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 24 >>>>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:27:05 -0700, Arun Sharma said: Arun> Arun Sharma wrote: >> Christoph doesn't like the idea of adding exec-domains just for >> this purpose and has suggested adding a new system call to set >> the altroot. A prototype patch to do this already exists. I will >> be cleaning it up and posting it to LKML later this week. The >> main purpose of moving the discussion to LKML was to see how >> receptive people were to the proposed new system call. Arun> Attached is the promised patch. It addresses Christoph's Arun> comments and fixes the bug Tony found as well. I like it. Once it's in (surely it will go in, no? ;-), we can change asm-ia64/namei.h to define a non-NULL __emul_prefix() only if CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is defined. One less hardcoded path to worry about! --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/