Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:32:26 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Support ia32 exec domains without CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT |
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>>>>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:27:05 -0700, Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> said:
Arun> Arun Sharma wrote: >> Christoph doesn't like the idea of adding exec-domains just for >> this purpose and has suggested adding a new system call to set >> the altroot. A prototype patch to do this already exists. I will >> be cleaning it up and posting it to LKML later this week. The >> main purpose of moving the discussion to LKML was to see how >> receptive people were to the proposed new system call.
Arun> Attached is the promised patch. It addresses Christoph's Arun> comments and fixes the bug Tony found as well.
I like it. Once it's in (surely it will go in, no? ;-), we can change asm-ia64/namei.h to define a non-NULL __emul_prefix() only if CONFIG_IA32_SUPPORT is defined. One less hardcoded path to worry about!
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