Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Modutils can't handle long kernel names | Date | Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:34:00 +1100 |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:42:10 -0800, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote: >EXTRAVERSION=-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+ext3-mem_acct+elevator > >Unfortunately, with this long kernel version number, modutils (I've noticed >depmod and modutils so far...) choke on it. > >depmod: >depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.15-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+e#1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001/modules.dep for writing > >uname -r: >2.4.15-pre1+freeswan-1.91+xsched+netdev_random+ext3-0.9.15-2414+e#1 SMP Thu Nov 8 20:18:04 PST 2001
It is not a modutils problem, it is a fixed restriction on the size of the uname() fields, modutils just uses what uname -r gives it.
struct utsname { char sysname[SYS_NMLN]; char nodename[SYS_NMLN]; char release[SYS_NMLN]; char version[SYS_NMLN]; char machine[SYS_NMLN]; char domainname[SYS_NMLN]; };
SYS_NMLN maps to _UTSNAME_LENGTH. /* Length of the entries in `struct utsname' is 65. */ #define _UTSNAME_LENGTH 65
Like you said, don't do that :).
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