Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2002 16:54:13 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Quota patches |
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Uz.ytkownik Christoph Hellwig napisa?: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:12:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > >>>>Of course you can. Even the latest OpenLinux release (shipping 2.4.13-ac) >>>>uses a libc4/a.out based installer fo space reasons. Not to forget the >>>>old quake1 binary from some redhat 4.x CD I run from time to time :) >>> >>>OK thanks for the *substantial* answer. That was the reason I was asking about. >>>Somehow this is of course surprising me of course. >> >>So why didn't you -test- the theory before suggesting it. It btw goes beyond >>Libc4. Currently we have almost 100% compatibility back to libc 2.2.2. The >>dated libc before that doesn't work because we dropped some very very >>early obscure versions of a few syscalls. >> >>Is it too much to ask that you go and look through the syscall tables of >>old and new kernels ? > > > For 2.5 I have some plans to make obsolete syscalls depend on CONFIG_COMPAT_*, > this allows to compile big and bloated kernel for compatiblity and smaller > kernels without that (e.g. for embedded devices). And in fact we have quite > a loft of cruft that can go away for setups only having very modern userspace..
I second this!
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