On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:59:21AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/29/2010 01:57 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > > ST_VALID is required to differentiate between no flags, and > > flags field unsupported of course. > > Not needed if a new syscall would be used. True, but we have the spare fields. > > At least from 2.4.0 does memset it. 2.2.26 does not. Can you > > live with that? > > We still support building glibc for everything from linux 2.0 on, at > least for x86. I really have no idea whether such old kernels are still > in use and if yes, whether userland gets updated. I wouldn't have a > problem with bumping the minimum required kernel version. I guess most would assume a 2.6 kernel nowadays? With either the new syscall or Christoph's patch, you need to keep the fallback around too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
