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~ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
