Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Linux has a broken shutdown syscall! | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:11:24 +0100 (BST) |
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> Do the 'uname' system call and look at the version number at runtime. Have 2 > configuration variables which contain the shutdown states. If you detect > strncmp(utsname.release,"2.0",3)==0 then set it up for the munge, else > make it right. This can all just be an #ifdef to please the clean code guys.
2.0.34pre12 will fix this (it does already but Im still hacking on the two remaining bugs to very long life high stability kernels . It (and pre11b) also contain a lot of security fixes. So once 2.0.34 is out
a) The bug is fixed b) Very few people should be running <2.0.34 once the first brave folk prove its a solid as we believe it will be
Alan
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