Karel Zak wrote: > 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. As the description says, it will not make your x86_64 be a i386 (let alone something completely different like ppc etc.), it merely changes some string returned by uname(); > > 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, ...). You could add a compatability symlink where it's needed. SUSE Linux for example never had setarch, only 'linux32'. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
