Re: merge setarch program into util-linux

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On Thursday 14 June 2007, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:45:04PM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > > 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'.

linux32 isnt the only one (ppc, sparc, and mips all have their own), ive just 
been creating all of them in Gentoo
-mike

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