Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:07:17 -0800 | From | "H . J . Lu" <> | Subject | Re: Does e2fsprogs-1.26 work on mips? |
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:52:24AM -0800, Peter Hartley wrote: > H J Lu wrote: > > I look at the glibc code. It uses a constant RLIM_INFINITY for a given > > arch. The user always passes (~0UL) to glibc on x86. glibc will check > > if the kernel supports the new getrlimit at the run time. If it > > doesn't, glibc will adjust the RLIM_INFINITY for setrlimit. I > > don't see > > how glibc 2.2.5 compiled under kernel 2.2 will fail under 2.4 due to > > this unless glibc is misconfigureed or miscompiled. > > It's not a question of which kernel glibc is compiled under, it's a question > of which version of the kernel headers (/usr/include/{linux,asm}) glibc is > compiled against. >
What are you talking about? It doesn't matter which kernel header is used. glibc doesn't even use /usr/include/asm/resource.h nor should any user space applications.
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