Re: Fedora Core 5 closed

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 10:29 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>   
> > Just FYI, I've closed the Fedora Core 5 tracker, and largely removed the 
> > fc5 specific checks.
> >     
>
> Would it make sense to have maintainers for the various platforms we are
> interested in, then we can just ask whether someone wants to maintain
> such an old platform tracker bug. I am mainly interested in Fedora 6
> (x86_64) and Fedora 7 (x86) so I could take those two till I upgrade for
> example.
>   

There are distro specific packagers; but beyond that we should all be 
taking responsibility for the systems we use.

>   
> > Note however, this doesn't mean that we're free of the pre-utrace 
> > kernels.  RHEL 4 and other non-utrace systems live on :-)
> >     
>
> Does that really matter? utrace doesn't have a userspace interface
> except though ptrace. If there are any differences in behavior then they
> are probably bugs in the ptrace layer. Or is there something else to
> watch out for between ptrace/utrace enabled kernels?
>
>   
Sometimes it is a bug, sometimes is is a question of interpretation.  Cf 
KILL you recently asked about.

Andrew