Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:20:22 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11 |
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On 07/22/2013 07:25 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > I wondered if your proposal will break glibc as glibc checks for > __NR_oldumount and does different things based on that. But maybe your > fix will not adversely affect glibc (I did not look particularly closely > to see if so), but even so, there is no guarantee that other software does > not directly access the oldumount syscall when compiled on Alpha, and your > change would likely break any such software.
It won't break glibc. While there are conditionals for oldumount, they do pretty much exactly the umount/umount2 dance you'd expect.
I'm for the patch, because anything that makes us match x86 more closely has got to be a good thing from a portability standpoint.
r~
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