Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:16:54 +0400 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: Breaking userspace? Re: 3.0.24 broke aufofs on mixed 32/64bit environment |
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On 24.04.2012 20:12, Michael Tokarev wrote: > On 24.04.2012 19:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> Kernel has been shipping with this brokeness for quite >>> some time, namely, since introduction of autofs4, dated >>> Mon Mar 27 01:14:55 2006 -0800 (commit 5c0a32fc2cd0). >>
>> Actually, that's just not true. The *main* users of the interface seem >> to have never fixed anything. As far as I know, neither the upstream >> autofs tools nor several of the big distributions ever had patches to >> make 32-bit autofs work with the old broken 64-bit compat layer. [] > I don't know how old this code is, but it definitely is in the > 5.0.1 upstream tarball, and the file there is dated > Feb-20, 2007 - at least 3 years after the initial bug in kernel.
I meant to say "about a year after the initial bug in kernel".
And I think it was me who found the original issue, -- i mean, discovered that it does not work, not found the real bug - but I don't remember anymore. This stuff looks very familiar for some reason however... ;)
Thanks,
/mjt
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