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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:25 +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:
>> 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.
>> I still got the exact same problem with this patch applied.
> 
> I works for me on a bcm91480b in big endian mode.

Oops, you are right, I booted the wrong kernel. Sorry!

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