On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:45:04PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:16:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > considering the purpose of the util-linux package, it seems sensible to merge
> > > the setarch package ... plus i can send bug reports to this mailing list
> > > rather than having to file bugs in the Redhat bugzilla ;)
> >
> > Good point. Jindrich Novy who is a setarch maintainer agrees with
> > this idea. I'll commit the setarch.c ASAP. Thanks to Jindrich!
>
> While you are at it, what about choosing a better suited name as
> well? Since setarch cannot actually change the architecture and is
It depends ... what do you mean with "change the architecture"? :-)
setarch.8:
setarch - change reported architecture in new program
environment and set personality flags
This utility currently only affects the output of uname -m.
For example, on an AMD64 system, running ’setarch i386
program’ will cause ’program’ to see i686 (or other relevant
arch) instead of x86_64 as machine type. It also allows to
set various personality options.
> basically a wrapper for the 'personality' syscall renaming it to
> 'personality', 'setpers' or similar would probably make sense.
Well, you're right that 'setpers' is probably better name, but I
think it's too late for this change. The command is already on many
places (scripts, distributions, ...).
Karel
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