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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:25:49 +0200
From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
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Subject: Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
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Thiemo Seufer a ?crit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On mips(el), when doing multiple call to the syscall SYS_personality in 
>> order to get the current personality (using 0xffffffff for the first 
>> argument), on a 64-bit kernel, the second and subsequent syscalls are 
>> failing. That works correctly with a 32-bit kernels and on other 
>> architectures.
> 
> That's caused by mis-handling broken sign extensions, see also
> http://bugs.debian.org/380531.
> 

Nice to see there is already a patch! Thanks for your work. Do you know 
when the patch will be merged upstream or in Debian? I really want to 
see this bug fixed, as it breaks dchroot.

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