* Zachary Amsden <zach at vmware.com> wrote: > > yeah. (plus my patches of course that remove the current > > papering-over hackery and restores COMPAT_VDSO.) > > Yes, I don't have a problem with your patch, I just wish I had been > cc'd on it. [...] (i Cc:-ed you to the other ones - i simply forgot and bounced it to you a few hours down the line - sorry!) > [...] Fixing this is rather tricky, but I believe no strange build > magic is required, it can be done in kernel init code. Still building > my SUSE 9.0 guest to test. SUSE 9.0 is one of those that requires > COMPAT_VDSO, yes? yeah, and a handful of other ones. It depends on the glibc version: early vdso glibs were buggy and assumed a few things about the vdso, so they would segfault on the new-style vdso which is fully relocatable (and hence mergable into the vma space, randomizable, etc.). Ingo
