Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263202AbUJ2BSH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:18:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263269AbUJ2AeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:34:19 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:37824 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263281AbUJ2A3D (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:29:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:28:31 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Blaisorblade Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, LKML , Andrew Morton , Jeff Dike Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: Why UML often does not build (was: Re: [PATCH] UML: Build fix for TT w/o SKAS) Message-ID: <20041029002831.GD12434@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <20041027053602.GB30735@taniwha.stupidest.org> <200410282254.21944.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> <20041028214242.GB2269@taniwha.stupidest.org> <200410290149.31665.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410290149.31665.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 33 On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:49:31AM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > Yes, it was using SIGKILL instead of PTRACE_KILL; this gets broken > by 2.6.9. the problem here is that ptrace semantics are not well defined to anything subtle can and will break from time to time if we can get UML in a more suitable state and perhaps get some minor QA stuff merged (a new make target using initramfs maybe?) we could 'encourage' people to test UML more often > Well, I've seen Christoph Hellwig not particularly happy about us, > see for instance: > > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@41752cc9xdFXib-03VDV5akqKJZ-yA?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-7d well, he is right in this case it's hard to find a balance between keeping it working for existing UML users (which is what i'm trying to make sure is the case) and doing cleanups which people such as hch point out really are needed > Sending a patch requires at least proof-reading it and writing a > meaningful changelog. Also, managing mails takes tons of time. im happy to take any and all fixes w/o comments in any form for now if you want to fire them off to me - 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/