Oliver Falk schrieb: > Hi! > > At Alphacore we used to patch the kernel headers for a while now; We > added syscalls __NR_openat (447) until __NR_tee (466). > > However, since 2.6.23 these syscall where added upstream, but with > different syscall numbers; What happens is the following: > > * glibc 2.6.90 compiled with 2.6.23 headers installed > * kernel 2.6.21 (our patched headers in place, different syscall > 'ordering'/numbers) installed > > [root@tyskie ~]# uname -r; touch x; rm -f x > 2.6.23-0.145.rc4.fc8 > rm: cannot remove `x': File exists > > :-( I don't want to live without rm :-P and chmod doesn't work as well... > > If I start 2.6.15, where these syscalls where not in place, it works > just fine. If I install old glibc 2.6 (compiled against 2.6.21 headers) > and kernel 2.6.21 also everything is fine. > > Final test was now: > * Boot kernel 2.6.23 and glibc 2.6.90 (compiled against 2.6.23 headers), > also everything seems to work. > > As these additions are quite new to upstream kernel, but at Alphacore we > have patched it since a while now (I don't know about other Alpha ports; > Debian folks may speak up now!), I would suggest to use the same > 'ordering' of the syscalls upstream and add the new syscalls that we had > not in place, but are now upstream to the end of our 'old' list. > > I have attached our patch that we used for 2.6.21. > > > Please let me know if that's fine everyone and keep me posted directly > and only via m/l, as I might miss the mail then... Attached patch should bring ordering back to what we had at AC. systbls.S should be ordered as well, but from functional perspective, I don't worry about that for now :-P -of
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