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Subject: Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha
To: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru (Ivan Kokshaysky)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 03:26:18 +0100 (BST)
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       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> IIRC, the problem is that BSD and OSF readv/writev(2) manuals
> explicitly talked of 32 bit iov_len, thus allowing the application
> to pass junk in an upper half of the 64 bit word.
> This change broke widely used netscape and acrobat reader,
> please revert it until we have a better solution:

Please fix the Alpha port. The behaviour fixed is _required_ by SuS.
Make your own alpha syscall that handles this crap.
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