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Re: [PATCHES] glibc 2.1, Linux, and chown
At 15:06 -0800 1998-12-12, Richard Henderson wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:17:18AM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
>> Alpha is different.
>
>At issue is that Alpha didn't go through the same syscall number
>changes as everyone else. We'd been following DU, which already
>defined both chown and lchown.
Unless 2.0 alpha kernels have both chown and lchown and both syscalls
behave in the expected manner in those kernels, there is a problem.
The real issue is the case of a glibc compiled with 2.1 kernel
headers working with 2.0 kernels.
The glibc FAQ says it is supposed to be safe to run a 2.0 kernel with
a glibc compiled with 2.1 kernel headers, without something to
compensate for the differing chown behavior, this is not true.
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