Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha

Ivan Kokshaysky (ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru)
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 04:31:19 +0400


On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:13:22PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Do we have any way of recognizing v4 vs v5 binaries? I don't think
> we do.

Indeed. I've specially looked for this yesterday, and it seems that
we don't.

> I'd be willing to call any ECOFF binary an OSF binary, and
> ignore the fact that Linux used them in the distant past.

Totally acceptable, I think.

> The minimum correct solution is to add a PER_OSF4 to personality.h
> and put an osf_readv and osf_writev that, if PER_OSF4, read and frob
> the data into kernel buffers and pass that on to the regular syscalls.

It would be excellent.

Ivan.
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