Hello Parag, On 2/16/09, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While playing around with Wine on 64-bit kernel I noticed that vm86 is > not supposed to work there. > > It might be a good idea to clarify that in the vm86 man page. Agreed -- see below. > --- man-pages-3.18/man2/vm86.2 2009-02-08 21:14:13.000000000 -0500 > +++ man-pages-3.18-wk/man2/vm86.2 2009-02-15 14:19:08.072201220 -0500 > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ > (This is a kernel sanity check; the saved > stack should only exist within vm86 mode itself.) > .SH "CONFORMING TO" > -This call is specific to Linux on Intel processors, and should not be > +This call is specific to 32-bit Linux on Intel processors, and should not I made it: This call is specific to Linux on 32-bit Intel processors The change will be in 3.19. Thanks for reporting this. I put the probablem down to bit-rot, since the last major change to this page was in 1997, when 64-bit Intel was not on most people's horizons. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
