Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:29:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:29:35 -0400 Received: from t10-201.gprs.mtsnet.ru ([213.87.10.201]:23168 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:29:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 04:31:19 +0400 From: Ivan Kokshaysky To: =?koi8-r?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , jlnance@intrex.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha Message-ID: <20020703043119.A804@localhost.park.msu.ru> References:

<20020630035058.A884@localhost.park.msu.ru> <20020701090353.B1957@tricia.dyndns.org> <20020701180252.A15288@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20020702190544.A23788@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20020702161322.A7642@twiddle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020702161322.A7642@twiddle.net>; from rth@twiddle.net on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 24 On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > Do we have any way of recognizing v4 vs v5 binaries? I don't think > we do. Indeed. I've specially looked for this yesterday, and it seems that we don't. > I'd be willing to call any ECOFF binary an OSF binary, and > ignore the fact that Linux used them in the distant past. Totally acceptable, I think. > The minimum correct solution is to add a PER_OSF4 to personality.h > and put an osf_readv and osf_writev that, if PER_OSF4, read and frob > the data into kernel buffers and pass that on to the regular syscalls. It would be excellent. Ivan. - 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/